The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-17
BREAD LINES DISAPPEAR IN MIDDLE WEST

| the midwest have been nearly elim- mated and unemployment greatly reduced this winter according to re- ports from state labor departments, industrial commissions, employers as- socations and employmet bureaus.
 The causes were give as improved industrial conditions, mild winter and considerable out-ofdoors' work for common labor. An exception was re- I ported at Cincinnati in floating negro population, out of work, whose presence is attributed partly to mi grafton to northern jobs during the rail strike last summer and partly to layoffs from work on two Govern ment dams near the city.
 l The Northwest generally reports demand for lumberpacks, with consid- erable call also for building workers and common laborers.
 At Columbus the State-City Employ ment Bureau estimated 5000 men out of work compared with about 15,OOO a year ago. The Employers Association of Detroit, representing | 79 firms, reported in mid January | 194,697 men and women employed, and estimated the employed at 30G,- | 900 to 350,000. It said more are employed now in Detroit than ever before in the citys history.
 The Associated Employers of h. 1 dianapolis reported employment so nearly normal that no effort has been made to check the total out of work. Welfare organizations in Louis | vile reported no authoritative fig ures, but said the unemployed were not numerous. At St. Louis the State Labor Bureau estimated about 5000 out of work compared with | 45 ,000 last winter. Some former brewery workers reported among the unemployed.
 For Illinois the State Department of Labor estimated 14.5 per cent more employed, amounting to 10000 persons, than a year ago. The State Labor Commission of Iowa estimated l the unemployed at less than 2G00o compared with 10000 last year. | The U. s. Employment Bureau at Milwaukee estimated the number out 1 Of. work as small, while the State Industrial Commission office at Nadi- son reported nmnlovment conditions fairly satisfactory, due to heavy log ging and to building. At Green Bay employment hy anagers speaking for the Fox River Valley noted an un- precedented call for lumber jacks. Duluth reported building operations absorbing labor and T"'- r'1 for woodsmen and for mine workers. Fix pecting heavy demand for ir bn ore when lake shipping reopens, wiater stripping was in progress at these mines. Duluth steel mills, closed last winter, now employ about $500,
 In Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the secretary of the Chamber of Com merce, noted the mild winter as one cause of unemployment. The Unem- ployed was called negligible.
 Toledo reports none are unem- ployed who are willing to work.
 There is an improvement Of from 40 to 60 per cent in the unemploy- ment situation in Minnesota now as compared with the same period last year, according to the State Employ ment Bureau. None of the larger cities have had bread lines this win ter, whereas a year ago Minneapolis fed hundreds by that means. Actual figures on unemployment have not been compiled by the State Employ ment Bureau, but the conditions now were described as "vastly improved over a year ago."
 This improvement is borne out in the want ad columns of newspapers in the larger cities, where there has been a marked shrinkage in the sit uation wanted and an increase in the help wanted columns.
 In all Kansas only 5000 are un- employed compared with 100000 year ago, according to Richard H. Jones, director of the United States Employment service at Kansas City Only normal number of unemployed are reported in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South