Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-04-13 | Page 11 | Unemployment Cuts Deep into Pay Checks

4 J JR FRIDAY RID R AY Y EVENING AP APR I Unemployment Cuts 1 Deep 1 Into nto Pay Check Checks s W WASHINGTON April 13 Indus Indus Industrial the average av trial wage earners lose on 10 per cent of their working time through unemployment due mainly to lack of ot work one halt I per cent through sickness another 1 l per cent because of ot strikes and ana lockouts and 10 per cent come through part time employment t ac according according ac- ac y cording to figures complied compiled by Ernest S S. S Bradford member of or f tho the economic advisory committee ee ce of ot lt the presidents president's conference on ment merit The findings are published e b by the United States bureau of oC la labor bor statistics Of Ot or Industrial Industrial Indus Indus- trial workers on an average average aver f age are unemployed main I they cannot get work 37 are se sick Ick are locked out or on strike and another a are on part time The average worker out of or a da day working year loses 30 days da because he cann cannot t get work seven through sickness three from strikes and lockouts and 30 through h part time work He lie Is losing his pa pay according to Dr Bradford conclusions 70 days out of tho the rd His wages wage are reduced d 23 2 2 1 2 u per I cent through unemployment part I I time work sickness and strikes and lockouts or 2 2212 per cent if the time lost during the latter is de do- do ducted Instead of getting 3 4 4 a day Jay his pay is is' then really on 3 10 in instead instead In- In ste stead d of getting 5 a way it Is re reduced reduced reduced re- re to 3 87 These figures are ar averages and refer to the average over a period of several years ears taking good times with bad Thus if Ir he gets 4 a day his average avI average av- av av av- yearly wage will be not 1200 I Il I moor avear l Mr but at 5 a day clay it will 1 j t fl 1923 13 t 1923 f re rebe Si Sibe r be 1150 instead of ot 1500 and at a day will be bo 80 Instead ad of I J 1050