The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
Payrolls
Fall Nearly
7 Per Cent
U. S. Bureau Reports
$4,000 Lost Jobs
in One Month


WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug.
19.-Following wholesale lay
offs in June, employment and
payrolls in manufacturing and
non-manufacturing industries
showed one of the sharpest
monthly declines since July,
1919, the Bureau Of Labor Stats
tics announced Saturday The net
result. according to the estimate of
Secretary Of Labor Frances Perkins.
was $50 1000 workers thrown out of
jobs in the month Of July alone.
and drop of $40 100000 in weekly
wages.
The monthly report of the Bureau
Of Labor Statistics for July showed
a cut OF 3 per cent in employment,
and a wage slash Of So per cent.
The report states that the declines
during July we're exceeded slightly
only in the years 1880 and 1882. the
low points Of the crisis. In June.
manufacturing activity dropped a.
per cent and wages were cut 25
per cent.
Significantly enough, the sharpest
declines we're shown in the so-called
durable goods industries and
trades"-steel and iron manufac-
turing, textiles, automobiles. etc.
Sharp Drop In Steel
THE most pronounced declines"
the report states, "in employment
and payrolls in the eleven groups
Of manufacturing industries was
reported in the iron and steel group.
Each Of the thirteen industries in
this group. with the exception Of
the tin can industry, reported losses
in employment and payrolls."
Yet the expected seasonal in
creases in such industries as the
tin can manufacturing industry. and
the cattle slaughter industries,
which is inflated by large scale gov
eminent buying. etc. could not off,
SCI tltS sharp utCilneS.
During the one month period Of
July. employment dropped 29.1 per
cent in the hardware manufacturing
trades: Jobs in iron and steel fc-y-
ings industries dropped 1877 per
cent; transportation showed a TT
drop in Jobs and 1853 per cent
slash in total wages.
The automobile industry. BY its
own reports. showed a decrease Of
T.S per cent in the number of work
ers Figures that are based on the
number on the payroll lists and in
cl''''0 only frings and rot lay-offs.
Ed.
ShipbuiIding Falls OF
Shiobuilding, despite the laying Of
new hulls for warships, destroyers
and submarines. showed a decline
in workers by SO per cent. and air.
craft employment slumped 100 per
cent.
Sharp drops we're reported by the
textile and clothing industries-nil-
linery. knit goods, clothing manu-
featuring. dveiag and finishing,
shirt manufacturing and cotton
textiles.
Although the report by the Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics reports a
decline of $50 600 jobs for the menth
Of July. the figures do net include
the millions Of poor and middle
farmers who have been ruined by
the dro1sht and the A.A.A. crop
reduction program
While late figures from the
drought areas are not available. re-
ports BY the Department of Agri-
culture month ago indicated that
whole states in the farm areas we're
on emergency relief with new coun-
ties being added daily.
All reports emanating from gov
ernmental inspired sources err only
on the side of underestimation end
10 net include the natural increase
in those seeking jobs young people
arriving at working age) and the
farmers who have been ruined by
the drought and the criminal A.A.A.
c-cp reduction which, if taken into
account, would greatly swell the
July figures of the Labor Depart-
msnt.
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