The New York herald., 1922-05-21
EMPLOYMENT GAINS
IN new YORK STATE
Other Centers Offering Jobs
Find They Get Hearty
Response.
PLANTS ARE REOPENING
Workers Earning More
Than an Average of a
Month Ago.
FOOD PRODUCTS HELPED
Iron, Steel Lumber, Leather,
Also Among Those Reveal
ing Increase.
FOOD PRODUCTS HELPED
Special Dispatch to THE New YORK HERALD
New, York Herald Bureau.
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Special Dispatch to THE New YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington. ID. c., May go.
Employment is increasing rapidly
In the principal cities of New York
and other States, according to reports
to the Department OF Labor. Jobs
now are more plentiful in forty cities
than a month ago.
Mills and factories long closed are
reopenpg. Plants that have been run
ming on part time are receiving
enough business to stay in operation
the entire day, and in some cases
throughout the twenty -four hour pc
riod.
Workers are earning more on the
average than a month ago, and far
more than year ago. Manufactur-
ing as whole is experiencing re-
vivl of business that is putting money
into the pockets of the workers as
count.
Among those industries in which the
number of employees Is on the increase
are food, iron and STEEL lumber, leather,
paper, stone and clay metals and all of
their products, tobacco and railroad re-
pair shops.
Employment is especially on the in
crease i'm five cities of New York. These
are Niagara Falls, which reported an
increase of II per cent in the number
'at work; Buffalo, per cent; Albany
and Schenectady, 3 per cent. each, and
Yonkers, 2.5 per cent.
Gains in the number at work also were
reported generally by the Industrial cit
les east of the Alleghenies Among
these cities are Trenton, 3.5 per cent.
Worcester. Mass, IL per cent: New
Haven. 0.S6 per cent: Westbury. 0.74 per
cent; Jersey City, 0.46 per cent: Spring.
field. Mass, As per cent. and Philadel-
pha. 81 per cent
Strikes in the textile industry held
down the percentaes of increase in the
number at work in some of the New
England cities 1t is shown i'm the official
reports. nevertheless, the Eastern cities
as a whcle are providing employment
for materially larger number of per-
sons than month ago.
In Pittsburgh the improved business
or the steel mills increased the number
at work by Sc per cent. In Detroit the
spring automobile business showed suf-
ficient Improvement 20 justify the plants
IN hiring 1O.9 per cent. more workers
than month ago.
Cleveland. another steel city in
creased its working population by as
per cent. Dayton by per cent and
Toledo by per cent. Columbus re-
ported slight increase
In the South Improvement is going
on in practically similar proportions.
Chattanooga reported an increase of 16
per cent. and Louisville 3.s per cent.
while Atlanta reported a small in
crease.
Gains were reported from Minneapo-
lis. Grand Rapids, Denver, Milwaukee
Sioux City, Portland. Los Angeles and
San Francisco.
steel manufacture and automobile
building are regarded as the industries
farthest advanced from the state of de-
preston. In the manufacture of auto
mobiles the Improvement is marked In
steel progress is not so great, but more
steady. A portion of the Improvement
in the automobile industry is due 10
seasonal demand.