Show Cheerful Statistics When Christmas trade toppled buying records of four lour years' years standing there was good reason for lor satisfaction Now comes Secretary Secretary Sec See Perkins Perkins' report on December December Decem Decem- ber employment It helps to lo explain ex cx- I plain the lively Christmas buying and makes an even more striking comparison with other years Shopping Shopping Shopping Shop Shop- ping was back at 1930 levels Miss Perkins has to go back to 10 1919 to find lind a December which produced so large an increase in factor factory employment employment employment em em- and payrolls In the industries surveyed by the department o of labor 3 workers work work- ers found jobs again Weekly pay- pay were given a boost There is real cheer in such sta sta- sta- sta Particularly noteworthy is isso isso Isso so substantial a gain gam in December December Decem Decem- ber bee when a 1 decline in factory employment employment employment em em- in normal The departments department's depart depart- ments meats job and wa wage e index is now far above the whole of oC 1932 and better belter than all except one or two months of 1933 This This' does not mean unemployment unemployment ment is b baing ing wiped out anywhere near as fast last as it should be But it docs does knock the spots out of ot the who so recently were wailing Were getting gelling worse all the lime Cleveland Cleveland Plain Dealer I |