New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 9, 1923, Page 11

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SURVEY SEES 600D BUSINESS HERE Employment Situation All Over This Socthllslnpmed BOR MANNIN 1Ay -y r Britain umm. ; ~The labor employment situation througgout Conneéeticut, and quite generally in the other states, continued decidedly encouraging during January, and showed still further increases in the number of those employed in spite unfavorable weather for outdoor WOMEN’S DRESS SKIRTS $2.98 each Mogular 85.08, 5495 values Belt measuroments 27, 28, 20, 31 inch, For a Great Final Clearance speciais For TOMORROW of Women’s Winter New Shipment Coats and Suits ot APRON Fvery Coat lm:“hlu:,( :o(-n in our stock DRESSES We place them on sale Made of pretty pacerned Percale—Neatly trimmea 3 Styles for choos Sale of Hand' Embroidered Models At the Art Department Vs Off Former Prices In this lot are Pillows, Centerpleces, Scarfs, Child’s Mats, Child's Dresses, Aprons, ete, good opportunity to buy a dainty piece or two at a real saving, BLUE BIRD HAIR NETS Single and Double Mesh All colors—Now lOc Each Markod for Quick Clearance Halance of our stock of Women’s Brushed Wool Slip-on Sweaters o 3298 e, WOMEN’S POIRET TWILL DRESSES $12,98 each Worth $19.98, Quantity limited “BOYSHFORM” BRASSIERES Specially oed (Worth $1.00) Made of fancy pink brocade material, For wear—No Brassieres like these, Bo great is the demand for labor in the state that thousands of work- ers who were released from dutdoor constructign during the month due to sefere weather were entirely ab- sorbed in other industries and the demand has still not been met, ac- cording to the monthly report on ems« ployment conditions made by the employment service, U, 8, labor de- partment for January, and made pub- lie today, The reports made to the employ~ ment service by its agents in every industrial center reviewing the labor situation for the past month and comparing employment conditions on January 31 with those of December 31, shows that the shut down around the first ‘of the year for the making of inventories in many plants was not for so long duration as usual because of unusual demand for products. Employment decreases observed in some industries were seasonal and only temporary. The great volume of bullding construction under way and contemplated continues to in- crease and apparently has not yet reached the peak. . At New Britain the employment conditions improved further during January with all plants running full time, ‘and some departments in the hardware trade running over-time. The industries showing the greatest employment increases during Janu- ary were electrical appliances, tex- tiles and their products, rallroad, ‘locomotive and repair shops, auto- mobile plants, iron and steel, leather and shoe industry, silk mills, paper and printing plants, shipbullding and repairs and strictural fabricating shops. Improved transportation in general business. aetivity and in the labor situation was reported from Bridge- port, New Britain, Middletown, Hart- ford, New Haven, Bristol, Stamford, Glastonbury, Danbury, Norwich, New London and Danbury. The report of the cnwloymont serv- jce for Connecticut inMgeneral and for the:cities of the state reads as follows: General—Steady improvement in industrial employment in al lines throughout the state. Practically all / plants are running full time with a number on overtime schedule. Short- age of metal woskers and. unskilled. 1aborers in certain sections. .Elec- trical plants running at full capacity, | “Brass industry on overtime schedule. _Building trades active with all trades- mén fully employed. No housing problem. New Haven industrial district, in- cluding Ansonia and West Haven— All plants running full time and em- ‘ployment conditions are normal. Shortage of workers in the building trades and to some extent, among unskilled Jabor. One rubber: plant clogsed and some others on part time due to lack of orders in West Haven. | Bulldi® trades active. Improvement hoted in the housing situation. This Lot Tomorrow Former Prices $19, §24, I you need a Coat—=llcre's y Onr Advice Is BE ON HAND EARLY All Sales Final All good styles, None reserved “Willow Bone” Corsets $1.00 a pair This Corset is guaranteed to give service, Sizes 22 to 32, your visit, This Is a Duluth now progress at thes mines. teel mills, closed last winter, | employ about 3,500 In Sioux I'alls, South Dakota, the secretary of the chambers of com- merce, noted the mild winter as one cause of unemployment. The unem- ployed was called negligible, Toledo reports none are unemploy- ed who are willing to work. Improvement in Minnesota There is an improvement of from 40 to 60 per cent in the unemploy- ment situation in Minnesota now as comparea with the same period last year, according to the state employ- ment bureau. None of the larger “cili(’i have had bread lines this win- | ter, whereas a year ago Minneapolis | fed hundreds by that means. Actual figures on unemployment have not | been compiled by the state employ- ment bureau, but the conditions now were described as ‘“vastly improved over ar ago.'" This improvement is borne out in the want ad columns of newspapers in the larger cities, where there has been a marked shrinkage in the situa- tion wanted and an increase in the help wanted columns. J In all Kansas only 5,000 are unem- ployed compared with 10,000 a year ogo, according to Richard H. Jones, director of the United States employ- ment service at Kansas City. Only a normal number of unemployed are reported in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Da- kota and Minnesota, according to re« port to Dorector Jones. 100 a year ago. The empl sociation of Detroit, representing 74 hrum reported in mid January 194,- 697 men and women employed, and estimated the employed 300,000 to 350,000, It said more are employed now in Detroit than ever before in the du s history. The associated employe: rsVot Indian- apolis reported employment so nearly normal that no effort has been made to check the total out of work. Wel- fare organizations in Touisville re- ported no authoritative figures, but | said the unemployed were not num- erous, At St. Louis the state labor bureau estimated about 5,000 out of work compared with 45,000 last win- ter. Some former brewery workers were reported among the unemployed. For Illinois the state department of |1abor estimated 14.5 per cent more | empioyed, amounting to 110,000 per- sons, than a year ago. The state la- bor commissioner of Towa estimated the unemployed at less than 20,000 compared with 40,000 last year. The U. 8. employment bureau at Milwaukee fmated the number out of work as small, while the state in- dustrial commission office at Madison reported employment conditions fairly satisfactory, due to heavy logging and to building At Green Bay employ- ment managers speaking for the IFox river valley noted an unprecedented call for lumberjacks. Duluth report- €d building operations absorbing labor and demand for woodsmen and for mine workers. Expecting a heavy demand for iron ore when lake ship- ping reopens, winter stripping was in wear plant now on full week schedule instead of four days, employing 400 to 500 hands. Building trades dull.| Shortage of medium priced houses. | Wilimantic—Very little unemploy- ment. All factories operating full time and nearly full capacity. Short- age in.cdmmon labor. Construction of a number of dwellings relieves| the housing istuation. Local lz\bor’ sufficient for demand. | Stamford—Employment conditions good. All plants running full time.| Shortage of workers in hardware| factories and rolling mills. Building trades active. Local labor not suffi-| cient §pr @emand. Housing situation | improgngs® Gladlonbury—Very little unemploy- ment.” Al industries on full time basis. Shortage of common labor. Building program affords work for/ all available local labor. No ‘housing problem, | Danbury — Practically all plants| operating ‘full time. Seasonal slack-) ening in some lines. Sutficient work to absorb those temporarily released in their individual lines. Building construction keeps all lo¢al labor em- ployed. Housing satisfactory. Norwich - Industrial omployment conditions excellent. All plants run-| nmg full time. Woolen industry on Bridgeport-—All plants operating overtime basis. Shortage of skilled full time. Electrical plants running|Workers in textites. Paper mill re- overtime. Shortage of building | Sumed operation and will employ tradesmen and heavy bodied laborers.|about 200 hands. Building trades Building program furnishing work | employ about 100 workers. Housing for 1,000 hands Local labor supply|conditions improving. not equal to the demand. Ample ROYXL ENG—A-G—EM—ENT FEW OUT OF WORK - IN THE MID-WEST Improved Industrial Gonditions One of the Causes Chicago, Ieb. 9 (By Associated Press)—Bread lines in the mid-west have been nearly eliminated and un- employment ‘greatly reduced this win- ter accordibg to reporis from state labor departments, industrial commis- | sions, employers associations, and em- ployment bureau The causes were given as improved industrial conditions, mild winter and considerable out of ‘doors work for common labor. An exception was're- ported at Cincinnati in a floating negro population, out of work, whose presence is attributed partly to migra- tion to northern jobs during the rail strike last summer and partly to lay- offs from work on two government dams near the city. Demand for Lumberjacks The northwest generaily reports a demand for lumberjacks, with con- siderable call also for building work- ers and common laborers, At Columbus the State-City ' free employment bureau estimated 3,000 men out of work compared with about When Old Glory fluttered to the ground at Coblenz for the | last time, the flag was taken in charge by veterans of Chateau | Thierry. This color guard above is from the Seventh Machine Gun, Battalion. . 3 - houses for the present. Hartford—Number of unemployed | decreased over Deccember. Shortage ,;Lhat found more general credence |in addition, set fire to the Pathe- of skilled men in the metal trades. Men reMased from farms and tobacco plantations have been absorbed in other' lines. Iocal la adequate. No housing problem. Waterbury-——Very little unemploy- ment. All plants running full time. Brass industry on overtime schedule. Bhortage of common laborers. Build- ing trades busy. Shortage of one- family houses. New London—-Industrial conditions show ‘improvement in all lines. With few exceptions, all plants are on full time ibasis. Some plants working overtime. T.abor situation about nor- ‘mal. Shortage of Housing adequate. New Britain diminishing. All plants running full time. Certain departments in hard- ware plant working overtime: (,on» r supply in-| Unemployment | ed but without confirmation, struction of a new hotel with other| building projects will employ available local labor. tion satisfactory. Bristol—All plants operating time Metal factories working over- time. Very little Shortage of unskilled labor felt in local factories. Building program af- fords work for 300 men. ing shortage. Winsted -— Employment conditions about normal with practically all plants on full time. Some factories on part tinie, houses. Middletown-—All plants running all| Housing situa- | full unemployment. | No hous- | hosiery | Shortage of | jcontinent have | } full time and a few with overtime | in certain departments. Shortage of unskilled labor. Local labor clent for demand in building trades which are very active. Housing in- adequate, Windsor Locks—Industrial ,employ- ment containues to improVe. ‘plants on full time basis. Under- Horlick’s he ORIGINAL Malted Milk Children Pow- dera Tabletforms. Nourishing-Nocooking. 9 Avoid Imitatibns and Substitutes suffi- | All | Betrothal of Princess Yolanda of Italy To Captain Count Calvi di Bergolo Is Announced Today. London, Feb. *9 By Associated Press)—The engagement of FPrin Yolanda, eldest daughter of King tor Emmanuel and Queen Elena to Captain Count Calvi di Bergolo is an- .‘nounrod, says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Rome this afternoon. The unofficial matchmakers of the long been busy with the name of Princess Yolanda, Her engagement to the Prince of Wales machine workers, | Was reported as long ago as 1916, and similar reports were recently circulat- Reports Grandma’s Pancake | { | L) were that her engagement to the Crown Prince of Belgium was expect- ed to be announced the coming sum- mer. Prince Nicholas of has also been indicated as a suitor. FIRE BUG IN DUBLIN Are Injurexi TI'our Persons ‘When Pathe-I'reres Offices Are Destroyed By Fire Bomb, : Dublin, Teb. 9 (By Associated Press)—Four armed men using gaso- line and possibly a mine or a bomb Cakes like Grandmother used to make, with the real old-time taste—that's Heckers'! Insist on Grandma’s Pancake Flour at your grocer's. THE HECKER CEREAL CO., NEw York eAlso—Heckers’ Cream r.-u.,sdumm-s... Self:Raising Flour and Jidhtime Rumania | | Freres offices here today. Four girls and one man on the staff were in- jured by debris. Two civilians in the street nearby also were hurt. TRY T() l\'\( H LUDENDORFF Vienna, Ieb 9.—(By Associated | Press)—General Ludendorff is report- ed to have narrowly escaped lynching when his train was stormed by so- cialists while on his way to Vienna from Kiangenfurt where his arrival on Saturday caused serious fighting between socialists workmen and Pan- | German irregular: I'resh eggs H1c dozen. —advt. Russell Bros. SILKS A SALE OF SPECIAL IMPORTANCE Every One Knows Our Enviable Reputation For LOVELY SILKS AND THE SPLENDID VARIETY OF OUR STOCKS All the wanted weaves, patterns and colors are heve, and the wonderful values they offer will tempt you to lay in a supply for future requirements as well as for the present. 40-INCH CANTON CREPE Black, navy, henna, peacock blue, grey, brown and tan. Regular price $3.00. $2 49 . Special .......... Yard 40-INCH CANTON CREPE' Extra heavy quality; flat finish in black, navy and brown. Re.g. $3.50 $2 98 and $3.98. Special .... 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