Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-05-01 | Page 5 | Labor Situation Never Better

LABOR SITUATION NEVERJETTER Large Army of Unemployed Reduced to Minimum by Opening of Much New Work. New York, N. V. May 1 As Ma Day is the date that most oi the contracts con-tracts between employers and union employes In the east expire much Significance Sig-nificance is attached to opinions expressed ex-pressed by labor leaders, that nevei before have labor conditions been belter bel-ter than today. HukIi Prayne, gen eral organizer, speaker for the American Ameri-can Federation ot Labor, and Timothy tiealy, president of the International Brotherhood of Stationery Firemen, based their optimistic statements, the said, on the fact that there are HO labor troubles of consequence in the east and that the large army of unemployed un-employed of a few weeks ago, had been reduced i" a minimum by the opening of much new work Parades In Manhattan. Brooklyn and the Bronx, ended with mas meetings at which the speakers discussed the eight-hour law and better working conditions