Show I LABOR SURPLUS NOTED IN m Southern California Has Big Supply of Unemployed Unemployed Men I ISAN SAN FRANCISCO FEANCISCO Jan A 17 17 lar large e seasonal surplus ot of unskilled work workers ork- ork ers rs throughout the th pacific coasts coast's coast s 's not noted d by J J A Hell Kell San I district director of the th employment I service United States State department o labor In his monthly report issued I here today Although agriculture except for cit cit- citrus cit ru rue rus fruit picking In California l Is now at A standstill building where eD wea a en- en I ther permits continue continues unabated Southern California Mr Kellys Kelly's Kelly re- re report report re report port states Is with nub Its usual Inter TV Inter problem ot of caring for large numbers of transient ork worker most SalvagIng Ine of or whom are ar unskilled Ing and temporary rehabilitation or of Astoria AstOria Ore the business section of which was destroyed by tiro firo last It month will VIII afford aCCord considerable em mint An abstract I of or Mr Kellys Kelly's report follows agricultural California Cessation of tural and other as aaa II C result of Inclement weather ha has hai resulted in A ft large lane surplus of or unskilled ed labor Construction camps In th the higher altitudes also were forced TO yo shut hut down Most of these orera tool to the cities Lumber camps and mills along alone the coast and other places operatIng wN re ea weather her permits aro are lag Ing to capacity Building activities have fallen tallen ore off slightly Oil field conditions un- un unchanged un unchanged changed the th valley alley and coat coast dis- dis districts dis district being slack lack while the tho southern rn fields are re ar operating to capacity Win Win- Winter Winter ter Is bringing In the th usual quota of especially In th the part of the state Many of these thes re- re remaIn remain re remain main until the advent ad of sprIng and ond I add materially to the number of un- un un employed during this tbs season Reason Or- Or Oranges Or Or-ances Or anges and other citrus fruit picking Is 1 about bout to begin and will h help lp some some- What to relieve e the thc unemployment sit situation Il Thi This market ho however e eer er can Jw be supplied entirely through the local 1011 No o distressful condition lIa e been noted up to date Oregon There is at pr present sent i n surplus of all kinds of ot labor both skill skill skill- d and unskilled chiefly by byte te of nearly all seasonal oc- oc oc occupations and the th shutting hutting down of umber and logging camps In the th altitudes I Washington Tho Tha winter finds t surplus of unskilled workers and corn com comI com mon labor Ibor This Is due to the clos- clos I Ss clos f down of all seasonal occupations further urther augmented by the shutting down slOw of lumber mills and construe construe- ton tIon camps In the higher altitude altitudes ShIpbuilding and Iron and steel In- In In Industries are ar still dormant There Ther It Ii I little or no employment ment In lines I 00 00 I |