SLUMP REDUCES WORK.
POSITION IN UNITED STATES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. New York, Nov. 10. A canvas of the industrial situation in many sections of the United States shows that, concurrently with falling prices there has occurred serious unemployment, especially in the clothing and textile trades. In Philadelphia 200,000 are idle. The textile, automobile and construction trades are affected in Erie and Pennsylvania and 2000 are unemployed. In Boston 200,000 textile workers are idle. Throughout Massachusetts and Providence 2000 cotton workers are idle, and at St. Louis there are 12,000, at Omaha 3000, at Toledo (Ohio) 15,000, and at Tacom.i 2000. Lumbermen idle are: At Seattle 5000, at St. Paul 1000. In Atlanta there are no unemployed, but cotton workers' wages have been reduced between 25. and 50 per cent, in all sections. Various trades workers in many places have voluntarily accepted reductions to assure work.—Aus.-NZ. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1920, Page 8
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147SLUMP REDUCES WORK. Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1920, Page 8
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