The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-05-01

was listed May 1, 1921 among tn
states with considerable unemploy
ment with 10000 estimated as out O
work. This year Frank A. Kennedy
secretary of the. Nebraska state de
partment of labor said Nebraska will
be enabled to take care of all its un
employed in another four weeks, stat,
and federal agencies are beginning t,
have difficulty in filing calls for la
borers; reports from the state incidat,
no unusual or serious condition" H,
added, however, Nebraska will neet
no outside labor, unless possible som,
harvest hands late in the summer"
There is "a job now open for every
body who wants to work." in New Jer
sey, according to Russell Eldradge
federal director of employment in tn,
state department of labor. He added
that there is shortage of skilled
mechanics all over the state.
Joseph A. Kitchen, director of IT,;
North Dakota State Federal Employ
ment Agency, declared at Bismarcs
that next month there will not be :
farm worker in the state who want.
to work who will be out of Job. Mrs
M. B. Bowe, in charge of the Fargo
State-Federal Employment Agency
declared that there was no acute un
employment problem in North Dakota
and that the state continued to Absorb
much labor from the south and east
The demand is almost entirely fo,
farm labor, she added.
In Idaho, where it was estimated
10000 were unemployed May l, 1921
unemployment has virtually become &
minus quantity. Normal conditions BY
June were predicted in Utah.
The belief that before summer is
over there will be shortage of all
kinds of labor was expressed by b. C.
Seiple, superintendent of the City EN-.
ployment Bureau at Cleveland. EN-.
ployers at Cleveland are advertising
for skilled abor.
Figures for Pennsylvania exclude
100000 persons reported idle on &C,
count of the coal strike; those fo,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire ant
Rhode Island exclude respectively 25,
600 and $4,000 and $4,000 persons af
fected by textile strikes and shut
downs.
The maximum total for Maryland
includes persons without employment
who were working during wartime ex
pansion but who are not really de.
pendent upon employment.
Improvement in various states is re.
ported as follows:
Delaware: Applications at Fed
eral Employment Bureau, Whining
ton, drop from 25O-3OO daily to 1O-1E
daily.
illinois: Ratio of applicants fo,
jobs, as reported by Free Employment
Offices, March, 1922-172.4 to 100
February, 1922-209.7 to 100; March
1921-216.3 to 100.
Kansas: Number Of unemployed
reduced at least 5000 during March
according to John H. Crawford, laboi
commissioner of the Kansas Industria
Court.
California: Total of unemployment
seven to ten per cent less than at this
time year ago, according to fedora
and state labor officials.
Ohio: Conditions improved 40 pc,
cent in last year; placements by EN-.
ployment Offices during frset quar-
ter of 1922 46 per cent more than dur.
ing same period last year, according
to w. J. Biebesheimer, federal direc.
tor of labor
Oklahoma: Unemployment lessenet
one-third to one-half since the middle
of February, according to Claude F
Connally, state commissioner Of labor
Wisconsin,: Fifty per cent more
persons placed by employment Office:
in March than in February.
Reports by sections and states fol
low:
New Worthwhile no official stat,
statistics on the number of unemploy
ed were available, it was estimated b.
persons conversant with the situation
that about 100000 persons in ew Yorl
would be unemployed May 1. How
ever, 100000 more persons will he EN-
rloyed on that date than in August
1921, which was the month of creates
unemployment, according to the esti
mate of statisticians of the state de
partment of labor.
New Jersey: Building is abou
normal in all parts of the state, ac
cording to Russell Eldredge, gedera
director of employment in the stat'
department of labor. Farm labor i:
scarce, he said. Business is improving
north of Trenton. The southern par
of the state is returning to norma
conditions more slowly. The potterie
of Trenton are being operated a
about 80 per cent of normal and tn
steel plants at about 70 per cent. Rub
ber mills are working on three shifts.
Delaware: The building trade il
noticeably reviving.
Throughout the state there is a de