Evening star., 1923-03-17
MANY GOOD Jobs ?
ARE GOING BEGGING
Manufacturers Losing Vast
Sums Through Lack
of Labor.
BY J. G. ROYLE.
Special Dispatch 70 The Star.

nlSclsl itlSpatch 10 The star.
NEW YORK, March 17.-Good 5obs
are going begging. Despite this, there
are thousands Of workers today who
are voluntarily unemployed hanging
around and waiting for a job that Just
strikes their fancy. Thousands of dol
lars worth Of business which nigh
be handled at q profit by manufactur-
ers, producers and carriers are being
lost in consequence. Steel mills are
operating at a rate unequaIed before
war expansion of plants. Between
100000 and 40,G00,000 cotton spin
dies are active. Employment in tho
automobile and other industrial plants
in Detroit today has reached 325. .04V
workers. the high point OF all time.
The building trades are begging fo~
trained men and the farms are offering
wages unheard or in other years.
Labor disputes, however, are looming
as possibilities. Textile workers o.
New England have determined to de-
mand an increase in pay, and a strike
Of $4,000 operatives Is the alternative
they offer to the granting of their de
mands. Other factory workers also
are preparing for struggle which
may involve thousands OF employees.
Low Clothing Prices.
Perhaps the most dominant factor
OF the week has been the low prices
named for spring and fall clothing
by Hart Shaffner g. Marx of Chicago.
They have announced their whole
sale prices for mems garments on q
basis OF $22 for mems suits and S22 so
for oVercoats.
This has forced the other clothing
manufacturers either to meet thege
prices or scramble for the leavings.
1t is generally admitted in the cloth
| Ing trade that the Chicago firm is in
q position to book whatever amount
| or business it desires at these figures
Raw Wool Market Stationary.
The shearing Of wool on the west
ern ranges has begun in earnest. bU.
marketing Of the product has not
| markets, while slight, has set a def
mite limit on the possible advance
| or prices to domestic growers and
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 staple and are deter
mined to exact the last cent possible
from the mills: Few dealers. how
ever, believe that even the Jericho
pool in Utah will bring the 60-cents-
| a-pound demand for It
Cotton Cloth In Strong Position
Cotton cloths have shown no fallirs
] OF, either IN production, sales O.
prices. Retailers are filing their re
qu1rementS up to and beyond July !
! and mills are cautious about bookirs
| more business at present price levels
! There is small doubt that cotton
| acreage Will reach record proportions
| but the size of the crop is dependent
| on weather conditions and supply az
| insecticides. The bitter dispute be
| tween DR.. Miller Reese Hutchinson.
| head OF the national campaign for
| boil weevil control. and the America
Cotton Association bids fair to leave
| more contracts among the contestants
1 than among the weevils, which both
| seek to check.
Price of Calcium Arsenite.
The boil weevil poison has ceased u
| advance and is stationary at Is cents
/ a pound with more in sight than wa
| expected. 1t is asserted that 22,300 00y
| pounds are now available and the COP
per smeltcrs, the main producers, are
more active than for two years.
The prices for raw silk have strength
eneo rather than weakened. The yapa-
nese varieties have not advanced, bu:
\ the Canton silks have moved UP 70 ai
parity at the Yokohama and New Yori.
markets
| The vogue for DeauvilIe handker
| chiefs has been SO exceptional that these
] pieces Of silk row sell for from s. l.,
$40 each at retail.
Lumber mills ara now at full capac-
its. copper lead and tin are steady, ana
tstrong lubricating oils are advancing II
price, and Fisk tires. following the gen
| eral trend, were advanced today 10 per
cent.
Copyright, 1921