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Show Increase of Employment The Labor Department reports re-ports show employment to have increased during the month of February. In commenting com-menting upon this, Secretary jof Labor James J. Davis said: ) "While the net increase for the month of February over January is small, I want to point out that in our most pros perous years an increase of j employment during February jis very unusual, as February lis always a month of greatest j unemployment. The fact, then, that employment increased during the last month is assurance as-surance that the tide of industrial indus-trial depression has turned 'and the increase in prosperity will be most marked in the next few months. A very 'significant feature of the situ- ation is that the increase in employment was most noticeable notice-able in the basic industries, such as iron, steel and lumber and their products." |