AMERICAN INDUSTRIES
FALL IN PRICES AND SERIOUS UNEMPLOYMENT ■'
REDUCTION IN WAGES . REPORTED .
(Br Telcgraph-Prosi Aesoolitlon-CoiiyrlßM New York, November 10. A. canvass of tlio industrial situation in many sections of the United States 6hows that, concomitant 'with' falling prices, serious unemployment has occurred, especially' in the clothing and textilo trades.. In .Philadelphia 200,000 workers are idle. The textile, automobile. and construction trades are affected. In Erio. Pennsylvania, 2000 are unemployed. A report from Boston states that 200.000 textile workers are idlo throughout Massachusetts, including 2000 in Providenco. There are 12,000 # unemployed cotton workots in St. Louis, MOO in Omaha. 15,000 in Toledo (Ohio), and 2000 in Tacoma... At Seattlo 5000 lumbermen are idle. and. 1000 at St. Paul. l!e----norts from Atlanta (Georgia) state that 'there is no unemployment > there, but cotton-workers' .wages have been reduced by between 25 an<l 50 per cent. Reports throughout tlio country indicate that wages have been reduced by between 25 and 50- per cent, in all sections of various trades. Workers in many places havo -voluntarily accepted reductions—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 42, 13 November 1920, Page 9
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174AMERICAN INDUSTRIES Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 42, 13 November 1920, Page 9
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