Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-16
Industrial Conditions
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mon laborers can ind employment
in this district. Shortage of female
help, domestics and factory oper-
ators exists. Building activities
progressing. Seasonal dullness has
not affected general business and
future is promising.
Jersey City Industrial District
including Bayonne, Edgewater, Har-
rison, Hoboken and Kearney. Lit
tie change in general employment
conditions. Railroad shopmen are
engaged in common labor, some
what relieving the shortage of this
class of workers. insufficient sup
ply Of skilled mechanics to meet de-
mands. Boiler makers and foundry
workers mostly all employed with
a shortage of men to lay out work
in shops. Demands for carpen-
ters, ship builders and first class
ship joiners, mechanics and masons.
Number Of radio plants shut down,
all workers absorbed In other lines.
Good domestic help scarce. Some
demand for clerical workers and
executives. Several factories work.
! ing overtime while others operating
on shorter hours basis due to co"
and transportation difficulties. r
gress on the new Hudson River tun-
mel, using -four to five hundred
workers. Several industrial plants
under construction including a large
| grain terminal elevator.
Camden: Generally all lines adj
vancing. Part time workers practi-
cally eliminated and many plants
now operating with normal force.
Work progressing rapidly on the
piers for the Delaware river bridge
to Philadelphia. Several large fac
tories being created and many ad-
ditions to old plants. State and city
road mechanics indicated. Railway
elevators and street railway track
ing engaging large forces of com
mon labor. Great volume of dwell
ing construction under way has
caused unusual demands and in
creased operations in lumber yards
and planning mills. Local Industries
not yet affected by coal or trans
p~ortation difficulties. Canneries
running full blast and employing
several hundred extra seasonal
workers. Local ship yards in
creasing structural steel work with
prospects of using ship workers
heretofore idle.
Trenton: Continued steady I'M
provement noted in local industries.
Supply workers in all lines equal
to the demand. Much building un-
der way, including road construc-
ton. Shortage of building mechan-
les noted. New industrial building
will soon be started. Workers have
been absorbed by other industries.
A slight surplus of female workers
exists. Local Industries unaffected
by fuel shortage.
Elizabeth: Industrial development
continues in this district. Many To-
cal firms expanding. Unemploy-
ment approximately normal. The
unprecedented building boom in this
district shows no let up. Construc-
ton involving several million dol
lars under way, including stores,
theatres, schools. dwellings and
street ways, and local improvements
observed. The general business sit
uation advancing toward norma
with indication of continuance
throughout the year.
Paterson: Industrial situation
shows a gradual improvement. Ad-
justment of labor controversies, IN
silk mills has materially reduced
idleness in this line. Several plants
have curtailed operations Que to fuel
shortage. Many dwellings under
construction absorb all building
trade workers. Large railroad re-
pair shop closed down. Continued
shortage Of skilled farm help ana
harvest hands. -
Passaic including Garfield: M
industrial situation uncertain ana
employment condition correspond
ingly unsettled. Some plants partly
close due to lack Of orders with
few concerns working overtime.
Building activities continues. many
projects under way. Great shortage
of building mechanics exists. some
unemployment among ONCE Work
ers.
Perth Amboy: General employ