Spring Pick-Up Expected
To Whittle Jobless Figures
By SAM DAWSON
New York, Feb. 9 ff) The jump unemployment has just
taken to a postwar peak of nearly iVi million brings up two
questions today:
1. Is this peak, representing seven per cent of the total ci
vilian labor force, at the danger point?
2. Can the nation s economy-
absorb the steadily rising labor
force, and how?
Economists say four per cent
unemployment is "normal,"
seven per cent is not yet danger
ous, and they expect the spring
pickup ln business to whittle it.
Each year our expanding
population brings forth about
600,000 more people who are
willing and able to work. This
means that to keep employment
high and to prevent unemploy
ment from rising dangerously,
all those already at work must
hold their jobs, and at the same
time around 600,000 new jobs
must be found each year.
To do this, economists urge:
That industry build a greater
physical plant, so th& more
people will have a place to
work; and, then, greater output
to pay the additional workers
It won't be easy.
This goal was set forth by
President Truman in his econo
mic report: Reduction of unem
ployment by the end of this
year to "2 million, or 2 mil
lion at most"; 61 million cvi
lian jobs; and "stepping up our
national output by about 7 per
cent above the 1B49 total."
Yet, Commerce Secretary Saw
yer says the nation's jobless total
has jumped to almost 4 Vi million
a gain of 1.8 million over the pre
vious January. He says 50.7
million persons are working in
non-farming jobs, and 6.2 mil
lion on the farms.
The 2 million unemployed.
which President Truman set as
goal, would be about 4 per
cent of the labor force, or "nor
mal." The low point in postwar
unemployment came at the
boom's peak in October, 1948,
when the jobless were only 2
per cent of the labor force,
which economists call 'abnorm
ally low."
But percentages are cold
things.
To the man out of a job, his
situation is 100 per cent unem
ployment. In the city where an
industry goes down, the situa
tion is far from normal. How
ever, to the dealer in perecent
ages, five million unemployed is
the "danger" mark in relation to
the present total labor force. -
A business man's views of the
problem underlying the recent
spurt in unemployment is set
forth by W. Walter Williams of
Seattle, chairman of the commit
tee for economic development.
He tells the national automo
bile dealers association, meeting
in Atlantic City:
"Our population is rising, and
if industry does not expand suf
ficiently to absorb the new en
trants into the labor force, we
will develop an unemployment
problem of considerable magni
tude. "We are not now producing
at rates high enough to sustain
what is commonly considered to
be high employment The winter
months are seasonally low as far
as employment is concerned, but
employment will have to rise
during the year if we are to have
a healthy and prosperous econ
omy."
On these points, President
Truman urges further private
investment based "on confi
dence in growth"; and that pro
ductivity per worker be increas
ed by at least 2 to 214 per cent
a year.
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Williams notes that expendi
tures in the first quarter of 1950
or new plant and equipment are
estimated as 15 per cent lower
than last year's first quarter
so that job opportunities aren't
expanding at the old rate.
Increased productivity, Wil
liams adds, means "greater out
put per man-machine hour; for
the worker this means working
better, not harder." He urges
labor and management to get to
gether "to increase the size of
te whole pie to be divided
among all of us."
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at West Salem. The oldest boy
attends Salem Academy, the
other two attended Fruitland
school. Fruitland neighbors wish
them well in their new home at
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