The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-17

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 Washington, Sept. 17.-Unreveal- a except in dry government pub- Ications, compilations now are avail able which show the extent to which some industries have stepped ahead of pre-depression employ ment and the extent to which others still lag far behind.
 Comparing May, 1936, with May, 1920, 1t is obvious that most indus tries are not employing as many persons as they were seven years ago when we were supposed to be en- toying boom prosperity. But quite a lew industries have as large or larg- CT payrolls than they ever had be- fore.
 Tn some cases you can deduce changes in American tastes and habits and in others simply the fact that certain industries are lag aing behind in the current pickup. And then there's the factor, varying from one industry to another, of Pathological employment, which occurs sometimes where an indus try is producing at 1929 rate with perhaps 2S or 30 per cent fewer employees.
 Figure These Out
 The beverage industry, of course, s employing far more persons than at did in 1929 because of prohibition repeal. But try and figure some of these out: Other industries where employment is five per cent or more greater than in 1929 include soap, Eayon, wire-work, stamped and en- afneled wear, clocks and watches, chemicals, leather and beet sugar.
 There's . much longer list of Industries whose employment is x5 per cent or more below 1929 levels. Chief among these are candy, locomotives, tools, pottery, Textile machinery, rubber boots and shoes, cement structural and ornamental work, furniture, jew sIry, cigars and cigaretS, alumi- mum goods, lighting equipment, electrical machinery, electric rail- road repair shops, tires and inner tubes, silverware and plated ware, bolts, nuts and washers, iron and steel forgings, hardware, sawmills,
 mcllinery, brick and the marble, granite and slate industry.
 Somewhat fewer industries are at just about the same level of employment as in 1929.
 These include stoves, shipbuild- ing, radios and phonographs, shirts and collars, mems clothing, wo- mems clothing, glass, baking, paper end pulp, knit goods, paints and varnishes, engines and turbines and tractors, cash registers, paper boxes, petroleurn refining, rubber goods ex- Cept tires and shoes-and, of all things as you might say, corsetsl Interesting Statistics
 The automobile industry is in the group employing from 5 to 15 per cent fewer workers than in May, 1929.
 Also in this group are typewrit- CTS, newspapers and periodicals, boots and shoes, blast furnaces and rolling mills, flour, tinware, Woclen and worsted goods, cotton goods. drug preparations, fertilizer, slaughtering and meat packing, aircraft and cutlery.
 The ice cream industry Is one oe those industries in the group employing from 15 to 25 per cent fewer workers than in 1929. Oth- .ers arc carpets, sugar, refining
 electric and steel cars, hats, chew
 ing and smoking tobacco, butter,
 smelting and refining, explosives,
 foundrles and machine shops,
 brass and bronze and copper prod-
 ucts, book and job printing and
 farm implements.
 There seems to be no figures which would indicate how the Plumbers of persons on relief from siven industries would dovetail with the above figures.
 But if you like statistics you will Ind few more interesting in this Aeld than the tables the old EZRA assembled for its own information last year, showing the previous Occupations of the 6,151,000 per- kons--about 4,455,000 males and 1.0o6.000 females-then on public xelief. Totals for the chief groups zpllow:
 WPA Employment
 Professional and technical work ers. 02,078; proprietors, managers and offlcials, 7o,770: ofiice workers, Nl5. .z27: salesmen and kindred work Hks, 180,9el: skilled workers and 4oremen in building and construc- xion, 4o2,255; skilled workers and zoremen in manufacturing and ekher industries, 244,789: semi- skilled workers in building and con- atruction, 300, ,000: seini-skilled work. 6fs in manufacturing and other in- Hastries, 800,704; unskilled laborers, zee, e,6oo; domestic and personal serv- zAe. 0l6.761: farm operators and