The Connecticut labor news., 1923-09-22
Employment Lags

Employment Lags Albany, N. Y, Sept 15-Employ- ment receded slightly in the manufac- turing plants of this state in August, according to the New York state de- partment of labor.
 Small reductions have been report ed every month since March, 1t is stated, but the total decrease leaves the employment level as high as it was at the beginning of the year and there is no definite evidence of a downward trend
 LABOR CONDITIONS
 IN FOREIGN LANDS
 CUBA
 Unskil1ed Labor Plentiful. numbers of Europeans and West In- dians, temporarily domiciled in Cuba awaiting an opportunity to effect an entrance into the United States, are augmenting the supply of native un- skilled laborers of Cuba, with the re- suit that the supply is much larger than the demand
 cZEcHosLovAKIA
 Strikes.-Labor agitation through out Czechoslovakia during, July, 1923, resulted in many serious strikes and lockouts in which approximately oo,ooo employees, comprised principal ly of textile workers, coal miners, and building tradesmen, were in volved
 DENMARK Unemployment. = Figures showing the percentage of unemployment in Denmark, in all trades, were lower as of June 30, 1923, than they have been at any time during the preceding three years.
 ENGLAND
 Labor Troubles Affect Wool Sales. wool sales, scheduled for June and July, 1923, were interrupted, and finally abandoned, on account of strikes al the warehouses by the llghtermen and carmen
 GERMANY
 Food Scarcity Felt in Dresden.- Decreasing imports and the difficulty of obtaining foreign exchange have been the principal causes of a grow ing scarcity of food in the Dresden. markets. Many articles of food have been unobtainable at any price.
 Wages and Prices Incompatable.- Increasing prices for foodstuffs and other essentials, particularly in the Frankfort district, have made 1t necessary to adjust wages and salar- ies weekly instead of fortnightly or monthly, as heretofore
 IRELAND
 Unenployment.-Unemployment in Northern Ireland has shown steady decrease since July, 1921, the pres ent number of unemployed persons being estimated at I5 per cent of the total 100000 workpeop1e of Northern Ireland
 NORWAY
 Unemployment.-Unemployment in Norway, according to latest available statistics, decreased by approximate ly 1000 persons or IA per cent dur ing July, 1923.
 POLAND
 Strikes.-Numerou strikes, the most serious of which occurred among the textile workers, broke out in different cities of Poland during July, 1923.
 SCOTLAND
 Municipal Housing Project.-Bids have been recently submitted by con tractors of Dundee for the erection of nearly one hundred three-room houses in that city.
 SWEDEN
 Iron and Steel Strike Ended.-Ef- forts of the Government Commissio which was appointed to mediate the strike and lockout in the Swedish iron and steel industry, have termin- ated in a compromise between the and the laborers. The mills resumed operations last month when 10000 workmen returned to their jobs under the compromise agreement
 SWITZERLAND | Unemployment. t.-Appreciable- de- creases of 4,645 or I5.4 per cent and | 2,o55 or I3.I per cent, in the number | of totally. unemployed persons and | partially unemployed persons, re- 'pectively, were reported for June, 1923.
 WALES
 Dockworkers Resume Work.-i Delegates to the annual conference ,f Transport and General Workers Union, which was recently held in london, voted the issuance of a def mite order to the dockworkers to re- urn to work, following which the rst labor increment took up its du-