The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-06-13
Lorge Group Of
Skilled Workers
Unemployed Here
Represents Third Largest
Classification Reports
Ohio BUG

| Columbus, O.-Skilled workers rep
resented the third largest classification
of persons registered with the employ
ment service division of the Ohio Bu-
reau Of Unemployment Compensation
on April 1, 1910, Governor John w.
Bricker was informed yesterday by
BUG officials.
h Inventory Of the 27S,S13 men and
women seeking employment on that
date through the Bureaus AT branch
offices revealed that the total in
cluded $500 skilled, 71,760 semi
skilled, and 1854 unskilled workers
of all types, BUG officials reported
Service workers registered with Bu-
reau offices at that time numbered
40,651, clerical workers, 1861, sales
persons, 1886, and professional kim
dred workers, 1856.
The remaining 2,7S6 work appli-
cants are unassigned to specific occu-
pational groups, the BUG report
stated
They include recent school attend
ants who can not be assigned due to
lack of knowledge Of capacities and
abilities; persons beyond school age
who have no record of gainful employ
ment or whose work history is so linn
tied that ALLEGATION of a specific occu-
patton is impossible.
There were 210,731 men registered
for work on April l, the inventory dis
closed. Of this number, 22,O3S were
colored. Male workers as years of age
or over numbered 69,95O, and those 21
or under accounted for 14,752 of the
total.
Of the 63,082 women registered for
work, 8,710 were colored, 1884 were
as years of age or over, and 8,795 were
21 or under.
! Workers seeking employment in
manufacturing lines, totaling 95,068,
composed the largest industrial group,
followed by wholesale and retail trade,
with 36,799 registrants; service trades,
29,0s4; construction, 2S,693; agricul-
ture, forestry, fishing, lila; trans
portation, communication, utilities,
1O,725; mining, 7,437; and finance, in
surance, real estate, 1885.
A total of 52,0O8 persons registered
were unclassified by industry, the in
ventory showed.
Included in this large unclassified
industrial group were persons attend
ing school or who have left school
within the last four years and have
been unsuccessful in obtaining work !;
persons who have not worked within
the past four years; and, persons
whose current unemployment started
less than four years ago but were VOL
unfairly unemployed for a previous pc
riod of at least one year.
Of the $500 craftsmen and skilled
workers registered for employment,
52,714 were men, 21 SIG of whom were
As years of age or over, and 1889 were
21 or under.
One hundred thirteen of the 1856
women in this occupational group were
under 81 years Of age, and $50 were
As or over.
In the semi-skilled classifications,
3O,2O9 men were registered in the
"predominantly machine" group, 1909
being As or over, and 1,053 were 21 or
under.
Women workers in this same group
totaled 6,O95, of whom 1875 were as
years of age or over, and 2S3 were Fl
or under.
In the "predominantly manual
group in the semi-skilled classified
ton, 29,944 men were registered, 10,-
1872 being as or over, and LAP were
21 or under
Women in this group numbered s.
512, of whom 1913 were 45 or over, and
425 were 21 or under.
Analysis of the unskilled workers
classification revealed that 81 ,644 men
were registered, 1899 being 45 or
over, and 5,017 were 21 or under; g.
$50 women were registered, of whom
487 were 45 or over, and ATS were 21
or under.