Evening star., 1933-05-08
EMPLOYMENT GAIN
SHOWN BY SURVEY
Many Returning to Jobs and
Appeals for Relief
Are Decreasing.

Copyright. 19ss: bE North Ar american News
The employment trend Is upward
throughout the country. with slight ex-
ception. Jobs are opening. People are
going back to work. Appeals for un-
employment relief are slackening. This
is shown in reports obtained in numer-
GUS cities through the North American
Newspaper Alliance. The reports
follow:
ATLANTA-A decrease of per cent
in unemployment, affecting approx
mately 4,5OO people. in April, is reported
by w. E. Mitchell, chairman of the Spe-
cial Relief Committee of Fulton County
and Atlanta
The committee also reports some i'm
provement in the textile situation by
which a number of people were en-
ployed.
BOSTON-The dropping from the
Boston lists CT 200 people who have
found jobs between the middle and end
Of April "iS not a substantial but an
encouraging sign" according to Walter
" Mccarthy, executive secretary of the
city's OverseerS of Public Welfare. In
normal years, Mr.. Mccarthy says, the
seasonal drop comes in March. Last
year there was no drop until late in
August. This year. the drop in April
comes four months earlier than last
year.
Buffalo Conditions Improve.
BUFFALO-April showed a slight up
ward trend in employment in the steel
mills. foundry and metal working
plants, and lumber and planning mills in
Buffalo it is reported by agencies deal
,,-:4 1,
The gain in employment during the
month checked a decline in employ
ment recorded in March.
The Buffalo Chamber of Commerce,
the Industrial Aid Bureau and the In
duStrial Relations Association report
most of the men returning to work are
employees who had been furloughed.
CHICAGO.-Chicago's jobless are 60
ing back to work. Requests for un-
employment relief were constantly in
creasing until the peak was reached
early last Fall. BY that time most of
the jobless or their families had been
absorbed into the public welfare work
set up because of the national unem-
ployment emergency.
The shaving of the relief rolls since
that time has been a fairly slow proc
ess, but with the coming of May a real
drop was discerned. the largest since
the emergency relief work became
necessary.
Requests for May are nearly three
quarters Of a million less than for
April" says Wilfred S. Reynolds execu-
tive secretary of the Illinois Emergency
Relief Commission.
Favorable Trend in Cleveland.
NATURALIZATION some $780,
C00000 in deposits are still tied up in
unlicensed Cleveland banks, April re-
ports of employment and relief agencies
here show the most favorable trend in
the last II months.
In his report for the month, B. C..
Seiple, head of the State-City En-
ployment Bureau, said acceleration of
the Steel automotive and brewing busi-
nesses during April resulted in 44.s
per cent increase over March in lob
placements. Mr.. Seiple said that in
April his office received its first calls in
several years for electricians, clippers
and engineers for local steel companies.
Los ANGELES.-Increasin employ
ment, apart from that artificially sup
piled through unemployment relief
funds and Reconstruction Finance
Corporation loans, is noted here, ac-
cording to statement from the Los
Angeles County Employment Stabiliza-
ton Bureau.
A recent bureau report showed about
27000 persons employed daily through
placements in unemployment relief and
R. F. c. jobs, or an average of around
10000 monthly through the work rota-
tion method. Increased building activ-
ity has been providing work for con-
siderable number of artisans.
LOUISVILLE.-Men are returning to
work in Louisville due to seasonal re-
sumption of manufacture of bath tubs
and plumbing fixtures, automobile
bodies, boxes and automobile assembling,
and a pickup in railroad operations
and construction
In the last month 400 Of 1000 men
on municipal made work" have beeA
dropped because of accelerated busi-
ness. There has been some improve
ment in the building trades and scat
tered business of miscellaneous char
acter
Relief Demands Increasing.
NEW YORK.-In spite of the general
hope that business is improving, de-
mands for unemployment relief con-
tinue to grow from week to week in
New York City, at rate indicating
the upward trend may continue into
June
Exhaustion of savings, rather than an
increase of unemployment, is put for
ward by heads of relief agencies as
the probable cause Of this upward ten
dercy. This view is borne out by the
circumstance that recent applicants for
relief have been largely of the white
collar" class. Experience has shown
this group waits until its own resources
are gone before seeking aid.
PHILADELPHIA-Une IN
Philadelphia remains almost unchanged, |,
with perhaps a slight Improvement,
during the last few months, according
to officials of the Federal Reserve Bank,
the State Employment Bureau and the
Philadelphia County Relief Board.
Our reports up to date indicate a
slight improvement in conditions" said
a director of the statistical department
Of the Federal Reserve Bank. In
many cases where pay rolls increase,
crease, for part-time workers have been
taken on full schedules. On the whole,
there is small improvement"
6-Hour Day Successful.
PORTLAND, OEEG.-Seasonal en-
ployment and the recruiting of men for
work in national forests have eased the
strain on unemployment relief agencies
here Several industrial plants are in
stituting 6-hour day which has re-
suited in Unemployment of men laid
off on account Of slack business. This
division Of labor may be expected to
create further jobs for men on unem-
ployed lists.
Executives of industrial plants are
optimistic that betterment of condi-
ticns is on the way, their hope being
based largely on the rise in stock and
commodity prices.
ST. LOUIS-Increase in demands for
unemployment relief has been checked