Evening star., 1930-12-11
Members of $50 Trades and
Professions, Including COL
Iege Graduates, Out of Work.
COMMITTEE FINDS JOBS
FOR 758 WITHIN WEEK
Business Houses Cooperate, One
Store Placing Extra Helper on
Each Delivery Truck.
BY REX COLLIER.

Unemployment in the Capital affects
1926 persons and reaches into more
than $50 trades and professions, from
butchering to boilermaking and from
tile setting to translating.
Among the army Of job seekers regis
tered with the District of Columbia
Committee on Employment are miner,
three undertakers, a lawyer, IS musi-
clans one airplane pilot, three radio
operators and q steeplejack.
More than $500 Of the unfortunate
ones are more than 40 years old, and
nearly half Of all those looking for
work are women. OF the unemployed
men, 3,235 are white and 3,121 colored,
and among the women 2,625 are white
and 3,So5 colored.
758 Get Jobs in Week.
Despite the StupenduouS task in
volved in finding work for so large and
so heterogeneous a group Of persons,
the committee succeeded last week In
placing 758 men and women in q score
Of occupations.
These are some of the facts disclosed
In a tabulation by tradeg Of data COL
lected by the committee in connection
with its drive on unemployment in the
District Of Columbia. The findings are
based on 1.-The best information OBJ
tainable" and, for the most part, are
predicated on q recent census conducted
in the public schools.
The tabulation shows that unemploy-
ment in Washington strikes hardest at
the city's band of cooks and domestic
employees. There are 2,514 of these
looking Tor work. The next largest
group in need of jobs Is composed of
ordinary laborers of the unskilied class.
The number 1880.
Many College Graduates.
Ohhcials in charge of interviewing ap-
plicants for jobs declare that many of
those who apply are college graduates,
with a variety Of degrees.
The college group embraces a wide
range OF professions. There are ac-
countantS, auditors, clerks. chemists.
civil engineers and pharmacists.
Others In the white collar" class IN
clude statesmen, social workers, secre-
taries, stenographers, typistS, Craftsmen
and bookkeepers.
A special group Of placement repre-
sentatives' is canvassing business houses
and other institutions in an effort to
md openings for as many of the un-
employed as possible. Typical of the
spirit OF cooperation being displayed by
the employers, it is stated, was the ac-
ton OF q large department store in
agreeing to place an extra helper on
every delivery truck until Christmas.
List Is Compiled.
Washington's list of unemployed, hy
occupations, follows:
Accountants and auditors, Az: adding
machine operators, 8; addressograph
operators, 10; apprentices, /; automo-
pie mechanics, IS; bakers, %; beauty
parlor employees, 27; bellboyS, 2; black
smiths, IL; boilermakers, 8; book
binders, 2; bookkeepers, So; bookkeeping
machine operators, 19; bricklayers, 90;
butchers, 4; bus boys, 4; calculating, 8;
candy makers, !; carpenters, 1872; car
penterS helpers, 81; car washers, Q:
cashiers, %; cashier checkers, 80; ce-
ment workers, 81; chaInbermaids and
second maids, Ct; c!1arwomen, 65
chauneurs and truck drivers, 244; clean
ing and dyeing workers, 2; clerks, file
clerks and general Office workers, 729;
chlldren's nurses, 80; chemists, 8; col
lectors, 81; companions, ID; comptome-
ter operators, IT; cooks and domestics,
2,5l4; restaurant cooks and chefs, 22O:
counter girls, SIS; counter men, S; day
workers, ,565; dairymen, 6; deckhands,
!; sales demonstrators, IS; dietitians,
2; dining managers, As; dish washers
S; craftsmen, 20; electricians, 27; cleo
tricians' helpers, 8; elevator operators,
SO; stationary engineers, "a; civil engi-
neers, 6; mechanical engineers, 8; farm
workers, Z; flremen, 104; filling station
workers, s.; florists, 3; furniture repair
ers, /; furriers, /; garage workers, 6.
General houseworkers, 10; governess-
teachers, 10; graphotype operators, Z;
mandy men, o; hospital workers, 26;
nostesses. 2; hotel workers, %; house.