New Britain herald., 1926-12-17
SLIGHT DECREASE
 IN EMPLOYMENT
Payroll Totals Also Decline in November in Industries

"e1suluSlOA, U. C.p DcC. lt.-LAil~ ployment in manufacturing indus tries was reduced 1.2 per cent in November as compared with Octo- Der, and payroll totals were reduced S.2 per cent. according to a relim- mary report of the bureau of labor statistics of the department of labor.
 Employment in November also was 1.2 per cent less than in the same month of 1925, and payroll totals were 0.S per cent less.
 Usually November is a month when seasonal reductions in some industries are offset by increased activities in others, leaving the net change small, whether it be an in- crease or decrease. In 1925 Mo- vember showed slight improve ment over October, and in 1923 and 1924 there were small decreases, both in employment and employees earnings. The rather large falling off in employees earnings this year was due, in part at least, to a more general observance of Armistice day.
 The bureaus weighted index of employment for November is 91.4, as compared with 92.5 for both October, 1926, and November 1925; the weighted index of payroll totals for November is 95.4, as compared with 9S.6 for October, 1926. and 96.2 for November, 1925.
 o$ah lishments having in November B. 026,330 employees whose combined earnings in one week were ESQ., 41,S64.
 Steel Ship Building Gains
 Twenty-two of the 54 separate industries gained employees in Mo- vember, the outstanding increase be- ing 6.7 per cent in steel shipbuilding. Rubber boot and shoe employees in- creased B. per cent, carpets 2.4 per cent. book and job printing per cent, wooden goods IT per cent, furniture IA per cent, and cotton goods 1 per cent. The most pro- nounced decreases in employment were largely seasonal, such as 2o.7 per cent in the carriage and wagon industry, 9.5 per cent in ice cream, 6.2 per cent in women's clothing, per cent in confectionery, per cent in brick, and 2.9 per cent in mems clothing. The automobile and auto mobile tire industries, which do not either gain or lose employees habitu- ally in November, and which do not customarily fluctuate in unison. each reported loss of over per cent.
 Employes' earnings in November gained in only IA industries, car pets showing an increase of 7.5 per cent, followed by rubber boots with an increase of 2.9 per cent. h. creases of from 1 to IS per cent are shown in slaughtering and meat packing, furniture, printing, glass. electric car building and repairing, shirts, and cotton goods. In addi- ton to the 8 industries showing the largest reductions in employment the following industries also show ed considerable, though mostly smaller, decreases in payroll totals: flour. sugar, silk goods. woolen goods, iron and steel, structural ironwork, foundry and machine shop products. steam fitting, boots and shoes, fertilizers, cement, pot tery, and stamped and enameled ware.
 The paper group and the group of miscellaneous industries, alone of snl e{r;o showed increased employment in November. the percentage change in each case being II. The most pro- nounced decrease was A per cent in the vehicle group, and the small est decrease was 0.3 per cent in the textile group. The last group would have shown an increase but for the abnormal seasonal decline in the clothing industries.
 The South Atlantic states showed an increase in employees of less than onetenth of one per cent in Novem- Der, while each of the remaining 8 l geographical divisions showed de- | creased employment, the outstand- ing decrease, 3.7 per cent, being in the East North Central division. Sb- -ligi(:--? auaffo
 Below November, 1925
 Employment in November, 1926, l was 1.2 per cent below that of Mo- | vember, 1925. Nineteen industries | gained employees while S5 indus tries lost employees. The outstanding gain was 21.S per cent in steel ship l