San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18
UNEMPLOYED
| E:AST|D|OUS
ABOUT JOBS
Industries Crying for Men;
Workers Enjoy Volun-
tary Leisure.
RESULTS IN LOSSES
New England Textile En-
| ployes to Ask for Wage
Increases.

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New York, March 17.-Good jobs
Are going begging. Despite this there
Are thousands of workers today who
are voluntarily unemployed hanging
around and waiting for a job that
lust strikes their fancy. Thousands
bf dollars worth of business which
might be handled at profit by man
ufacturers, producers and carriers are
being lost in consequence.
Steel mills are operating at rate
nnequaled before war expansion OF
plants. Between 35,000.000 and 40
Doc. 900 cotton spindles are active.
employment in the automobile and
bther industrial plants in Detroit to-
Iay has reached $4,000 workers, the
high point of all time.
The building trade are begging for
krained men and the farms are offer
Ing wages unheard of in other years.
Labor disputes, however, are looming
ks possibilities. :,
Textile workers of New England
have determined to demand an in
crease in pay and a striks of $4,000
operatives is the alternative they Of
Ter for failure to grant their demands.
Other factory workers also are pro-
barring for a struggle which may in
Folye thousands of employees.
Low Clothing Prices.
Perhaps the most dominant factor
la the comercial and mercantile field
bf the week has been the low prices
hamed for spring and fall clothing by
Hart Schaffner and Marx of Chicago.
They have announced their wholesale
prices for mems garments on a basis
be 500 for mems suits and $22.5O for
bvercoats.
This has forced the other clothing
Manufacturers either to meet those
Nprices or scramble for the leavings.
Il is generally admitted in the cloth
log trade that the big Chicago firm
Il in a position to book whatever
kmount Of business it desires at those
1srss.
Raw Wool Market.
The shearing Of wool'on the ranges
has begun in earnest, but marketing
be the product has not kept pace. The
Easing Of the foreign markets, while
Blight, has set a definite limit on the
possible advance of prices to domestic
krowers. Buyers now in the field are
Extremely cautious in considering the
demands of growers.
The latter, however, have not lost
faith in the statistical position of the
.taple and are determined to exact
he last cent possible from the mills.
Few dealers, however, believe that
even the Jericho pool in Utah will
bring the so cents a pound demanded
Tor it.
Cotton Cloths Steady.
Cotton cloths have shown no fall
ng off either in production, sales or
brices. Retailers are filing their re-
huirements up to and beyond july. l..
Ind mills are cautious about booking
more business at present price levels.
There is small doubt that the cot
ON acreage will reach record propor-
ions, but the size of the crop is de-
pendent on weather conditions and
supply of insecticides. The bitter dis
butte between DIR. Miller Reese Hutch
nson, head of the national campaign
Tor boil weevil control, and the Amer
can Cotton Association bids fair to
cave more casualties among the CON
estants than among the weevils which
hey both seek to check.
The price of calcium arsenate, the
boll weevil poison, however, has ceased
10 advance and is fairly stationary at
Eighteen cents pound, with more in
Eight than was expected. 1t is assert
Id that 22,300,000 pounds are now
available and the copper smelters, the
main producers, are more active than
or two years
Silk Shows No Weakness.
rSK prices for raw silk have
Strengthened rather than weakened.
The japanese varieties have not ad-
danced but the Canton silks have
moved up to parity with the IO-
johanna and New York markets. The
rogue for Deauville handkerchiefs has
een so exceptional that these pieces
y silk now sell for from So to $40
ZACH at retail.
Lumber mills are at full normal
capacity; copper. lead, zinc and tin
ire steady and stroLg lubricating oil
advancing in price and Fisk tires,
Glowing the general trend, were adj
ranced 10 per cent.