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Whole No. 50 The course of unemployment (idleness other than that due to disability or labor disputes), among organized wage earners in the state during 1911 is indicated by the accompanying chart which is based on monthly returns to the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 188 representative unions with a membership of upwards of 115,000 or onefourth of the total number of organized wage earners in the state. It will be seen that not the year, as indicated in the during the last half the per only during the first half of September Bulletin, but also centages of unemployment were higher at the end of each month in 1911 than in 1910 with the single exception of the month of October, and higher than the mean percentages for the years 1904-10 excepting only in September and October. The difference between 1911 and 1910 is generally less, however, in the last half of the year than in the first half. Thus the mean percentage from January to June was 22.2 in 1911 as against 14.3 in 1910, while the mean for July to December was 15.1 for 1911 as against 13.0 in 1910. On the other hand, the largest difference in the last six months is found in December when the The chart represents the percentages of members reported idle on the last day of each month exclusive of those returned as idle because of sickness, accident or old age, or on account of labor disputes. In other words, the chart represents approximately idleness due to business or trade conditions, either general or seasonal, the amount of any other idleness included after the elimination of disability and dispute idleness being practically a negligible factor. percentage stood at 31.9 as against 25.6 in 1910. The percentages of idleness in different groups of trades indicate that the greater unemployment in the later months of 1911 as compared with 1910 was very general in the different industries represented in the returns. Thus the mean percentage for the last six months of the year was higher in 1911 in eight out of twelve groups including all but one of the five leading groups, namely, building, transportation, metals and printing, and the percentage for the end of December was higher in nine of the twelve including all five of the leading groups, that is, clothing in addition to the four just named. The returns show a slightly higher percentage of idleness in New York City at the end of December than in the remainder of the state. Industrial The returns from representative unions would indicate much less idleness on account of labor disputes during the last half of 1911 as compared with 1910. The returns as to all strikes and lockouts collected by the Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration show clearly that the last three months of the year 1911 were much less disturbed by industrial disputes than the corresponding months of 1910. Thus only 29 disputes involving but 9,822 employees were recorded for that quarter of 1911 as compared with 57 disputes and 27,968 employees in 1910. Disputes were also less numerous and much less extensive than in 1909. During the last three months of 1911 the Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration intervened in 10 disputes, in 7 of which conferences of the parties were arranged and in 7 of which settlements were directly affected. The corresponding figures for 1910 were 16 interventions, 7 conferences arranged and 4 settlements. The Bulletin recounts also the intervention of the Bureau in the New York City steam laundry workers' strike in January of this year in |