Milford chronicle., 1927-07-01
EMPLOYMENT OF The
NATION NOW AT 8l% OF
HIGHEST POSSIBLE PEAK
Summer Survey OF The National
Association OF Manufacturers
Shows No Indication Of Slump
For The Next Three Months.

NEW YORK-Forecasti the
business and employment outlooR
for the coming summer, a survey
inst completed by the National AS
Sociation of Manufacturers, and an
nounced to-day, shows that the in
dustries of the nation are now op-
Grating, and will continue to oper-
ate for the next three months, on
the remarkably high basis of more
than eighty-one per cent of their
maximum employment capacity.
Nineteen per cent of these plants
are now running at their full en-
ployment capacity, and twenty-nine
per cent are operating with ninety
Der cent of their maximum forces
Translating this into terms of nor
NAL good business, it is estimated
that ninety per cent of the plants are
to-day on a substantial employment
basis and operating on high pro-
duction scale.
The Association sent question
naires to 5000 members of its or
ganization in pivotal sections, from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, for an
instantaneous reflex of the employ
ment situation. The queStionalre
went to companies with payrolls
ranging from as small as dozen
hands to companies with 10000 en-
ployes. Replies were received from
2.2O3 companies, and these reported
that the number of employees requir-
ed in their plants to maintain maxi
mum capacity, was 1,5O9,92O, an
average of 685 per company; and
that they now have under employ
ment 1,227,325 or an average of 557
per company. This survey encom-
passes all industry and even in
cludes many seasonal industries that
are now at their lowest production
scale. AS compared with employ
ment at the same time last year,
this shows an actual falling off of
less than three per cent, in spite of
reports spread by the perennial pes
simists.
The survey covered twenty-three
classifications of industry: agri-
cultural machinery, automobiles,
automobile accessories, builders and
plumbers supplies, chemicals, cloth
ing, electrical and radio, food, furni-
ture, glass, hardware and tools, in
struments, jewlery, leather, lumber,
machinery, music, printing, pottery
and clay, rubber, steel and iron, tex
tiles and miscellaneous.
More than a score of plants in
various lines report running three
shifts. In the textile lines, reputed
to be in difficulties in sections, nine
teen per cent of those reporting are
running full forces and twenty-nine
per cent are operating at ninety per
cent of full capacity. Glass manu-
facturers, makers of pottery and
clay products, chemical plants,
manufacturers of printing supplies
and printing appear in excellent
shape, fifty per cent of those report
ing in each of these lines running
at ninety per cent of their complete
employment capacity. Makers of
various instruments come next;
forty-two per cent report operating
with ninety per cent of their full
forces. In only one industry, agri-
cultural machinery, is decided
drop shown, those reporting Operat-
ing with less than two-thirds OF
their complement.
The proporti ons in other indus
tries that are operating with ninety
per cent of their full forces are:
thirty-five per cent of the manu-
facturers of builders and plumbers
supplies and the lumber men; thirty
three per cent of the manufactur-