San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-19

| anu lNlS winter Tor the llrSt time III
years bids fair to make the elimina-
ton of seasonal variation in the auto
mobile industry.
Employment in Detroit could fa- ~
% per cent and still be above the
figures regarded rs normal"
| 1t is expected that after January
there will be an increase in employ
ment in the automobile plants until
| April with the average for the winter
81 1-3 per cent greater than a year
ago.
Demand Exceeds Supply.
The demand for unskilled labor in
the Pittsburg district far exceeds the
supply.
Employment departments of the
steel mills say scarcity of labor is the
cause of mills being partly idle.
In some plants boys just out of high
school are sought TO fill jobs formerly
held by experienced men and are paid
% to 60 cents an hour.
The same scarcity is found in the
building trades and contractors cannot
get men enough 10 rush jobs through
before cold weather.
In the Cleveland district. there has
been slight curtailment in some of
the steel, lumber. printing and chemi-
cal plants, but this has been balanced
by improvement in automobile. textile
and clothing manufacture and by the
migration south of thousands of work
ers.
As a result wages are on the in
crease.
Employment in the Northwest is at
an exceptional level and sufficient men
are not available for every line.
There is special demand for woods
men and farm hands.
The copper miners laid off in the
Butte district have readily been abb
sorbed into other industries ard the
farmers are still clamoring for help.
In California. labor. which has been
in keen demand all summer. will be
kept actively engaged on numerous
hydro-electric railroad and highway
projects.
To Continue Work.
The hydro-electric companies will
continue the S30.000.0OO worth of
work started last spring requiring both
skilled and unskilled workers.
The Southern Pacific railroad will
push U&S
one being the NatrOn cutoff. another
the Strengthening of the linc through
the Tehachapi mountain and the
third construction of lines near No
gales, Ariz.
There have been no decreases in
wages on the coast and building oper-
atoms this winter will employ all the
labor available.
Factories are in the market for
hands and many lumber camps will
run full forces in an effort TO supply
the expected demand from the Orient
and domestic markets.
Winter road building will aggregate
over SS.00O.000 in California alone.
Unemployment is forgotten phrase
around Seattle. although it is expect
ed unskilled men will drift in as the
weather curtails outdoor work
To counterfeit this. however. there is
a heavy demand for unskilled labor in
the orchards and on the farms.
In the big industries. especially log
ging and numbering. there will be
steady demand all fall and winter for
both skilled and unskilled men. and it
is probable the premium on skilled la
Dor in the building trades will continue
indefinitely.
Only an unusually severe winter will
slow up employment in the Inter
Mountain West.
Building is booming and there are
plenty of new projects in prospect.
In the Denver section the Burling-
ton road is completing its million-dol.
lar shops.
Lumber yards and planning mills are
running full blast.
Demand for mining machinery and
structural iron and steel is keeping
boundaries. machine shops and pattern
shops fully occupied.
CitieS are planning big paving prof
ects and the boring of the Moffat tun-
mel through James Peak, in Colorado.
will care for any surplus common labor
released from the farms, beet fields
and sugar factories.