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Show SHOULD BE PENALIZED Washington, June 2 (Special). President Wilson's Wil-son's Indianapolis speech had a good deal to say about "the team," and about the way "members of the team" should "play the game," and about what would happen to any of the players who break training or otherwise 'ball-up the game. And yet there is a noticeable and lamentable absence ab-sence of Democratic team-work. The president-captain president-captain has evidently given the signal for a prosperity pros-perity play all along the line, with a run around the end of goal, if possible; and some of "the team" have tried to execute the maneuver. The game was to convince the people that prosperity has returned and that a great job, accompanied ac-companied by high wages, is Sherlock-Holmesing ever able-bodied man. But, all at once, the play was broken up by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Department of Labor in a report on unemployment un-employment in New York City. The report is based on a census of city blocks selected to include in-clude a representative number of families of various var-ious nationalities and all classes of industrial workers, combined with a census of all families in 3,703 individual tenement houses and residences, resi-dences, covering a still wider range of distribution. distribu-tion. The enumeration was made in the first half of February, 1915. Information was obtained from 54,849 families having a total membership of 229,-428 229,-428 persons, of which number 95,443 were wage earners. Of these families 11,723 had one or more wage earners out of work, showing an aggregate ag-gregate of 15,417 persons, or 1G.2 per cent of all wage earners in these families without employment employ-ment of any kind. The total number of wage earners in New York City in 1915, is approximately approxi-mately 2,455,000. The percentage of unemployment unemploy-ment found among the members of 54,849 families fam-ilies visited (1G.2 per cent), applied to this number, num-ber, shows that the total number of unemployea in New York City was about 398,000. That estimate esti-mate does not Include any of the Irregular or part-time workers. A tabulation of the unemployed by periods of unemployment shows that 11.1 per cent had been out of work more than 180 days; 2G.4 per cent more than 120 days; 39.3 per cent more than 90 days; 55.8 per cent more than GO days; 7G.4 per cent more than 30 days; 88.4 per cent more than 13 days and 92.8 per cent were out of work at least one week. The occupations of trades hav-, ing the largest number of persons unemployed out of the total of 15,417 were: Common laborers, 2,440, building trades, 2,045, and the clothing trades, 1,781. The fact Is noted, however, that the figures were obtained at a season of the year when work in the building trades and in tho clothing trades is normally slack and that the number out of work reported for these trades was affected to a largo extent by 'the slack season. sea-son. In tho report aro embodied the results of two investigations made by organizations in Now York City, tho Mayor's Committee on Unemployment, Unemploy-ment, and the Metropolitan Life Insurance company. com-pany. Tho mayor's committee reported that the increase in the number of unemployed, based on the decrease of employment, was about 8 per cent of the total number of workers employed in December, 1913. And it was estimated that about 200,000 more persons were unemployed in New York in December, 1914, than In December, 1913. At about tho samo time tho Metropolitan Life Insurance company made an investigation as to unemployment by a canvass of families of 155,-on 155,-on policy holders of tho company, and found that 45,421 persons, or 18 per cent of all wage H earners in thoso families, were out of employ- H ment. Tho greater proportion of unemployment H reported is accounted for largely by the fact that H this survey was made nearly a month earlier in H the season than the investigation made by the H federal bureau, and at a time when the extent of H unemployment was probably somewhat greater. H The results of the Mertopolitan company's study H are, therefore, substantially in agreement witli H the results of the investigation made by the Bu- H reau of Labor Statistics. H It is not yet known whether this statistical H bureau will be put off "the team" for this plcc k of off-side play; but it is certain that "the team" k Itself will be heavily penalized by tho referee, H Mr. Voter of Allover. H |