The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-02
MORE WORK IN U. S.
Encouraging Report Issued by
Employment Service for Oct.
Information Covers Conditions
I'm $50 Industrial Centers.
BIG INCREASE IN R. R. SHOPS
Steady Jobs Are Offered in the
Building Trades.
Much Common Labor Is EN-
ployed on Highway Projects.

The employment situation in the en-
tlre United States showed a distinct
Improvement during the month of
october, for which statistics have just
Deen compiled by the United States
Employment Service of the United
States department of Labor, The sta
Istlcs are compiler for the entire
country, and are published in a bull
letfn which is being distributed at the
present time among the members of
the Topeka Chamber of Commerce.
The information. which is gathered
each month from 355 of the principal
shows an increase in the number of
persons employed in twelve of the
fourteen major industrial groups in
the country.
More Employed at Present.
The industries which show increased
shops; stone, cay. and glass products;
iron and steel; chemicals and allied
products; vehicles for land transporta-
ton; lumber and its manufacture
metal products, other than iron and
steel; miscellaneous industries; paper
and printing; leather and its finished
products; textiles and their products;
food and kindred products.
The industries which have shown a
decrease in the number of persons en-
ployed are tobacco and its manufac-
lures, and liquor and beverages.
Detailed reports on the employment
situation are received from 1,42S firms
in sixty-five industrial centers of the
country. Each of the 1923 firms
normally employs more than 500 per-
sons.
On October 81. these 1928 concerns
had 52,S6T more employees on their
payrolls than they had on September
80. Railroad repair shops revealed
the most marked improvement in en-
ployment. adding $500 workers dur
ing the month The tobacco industry
6rOnnR6 ! 256 RTrntnTPG drJrfr1pr the
month.
out of the list of sixty-five leading
cities OF the country from which sta
tistics were collected, fifty-six showed
an increase in employment, during
October over September.
Kansas City, Kan, the only city in
Kansas considered among the sixty
five leading centers, reported an in
creases in the number of persons en-
plOyed, were located in Ohio, Indiana,
Kentucky. New Jersey, Massa chusetts,
Illinois and California.
More Building Reported.
"One of the features of the months
p.oyment offered to the building
trades thruOut the entire country
says the bulletin. Huge highway |
construction programs are still under
amount of common labor, while large |
municipal programs are on foot with |
every indication of their continuation
thru the winter months, weather con-
ditions permitting"
The bulletin includes general sum- |
mary of the situation in each state, |
with individual reports from the rep
resen. alive cities OF each state
Reports From Kansas Cities.
The general summary from Kansas
IS as follows: ESTIMATED number of
unemployed in Kansas during Septem- |
Der was $3.50, of which 90 per cent |
were unskilled, altho returns indicated !
that approximately 80 per cent of this |
total unemployed were engaged in |
part time work. Principal industries |
working part time are railroads and |
building trades. Demand for general |
farm hands is light. Corn husking /
Eas just commenced and is absorbing |
Ina ny workers.
The cities in Kansas from which re-
ports were received were: Topeka, !
Wichita. Hutchinson. Leavenworth, /!
Atchison, Parsons and Pittsburg.
Emphasizes laid in each report on /
the amount of building work which is I
under way. and the general trend of /!
the reports is encOura ging. Full time /
operation of most Industries was re- !
ported from the Kansas towns.
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