Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 249, Decatur, Adams County, 22 October 1959 — Page 9

Total Os Unemployed Mounts

NEW YORK (UPI) —The number of unemployed due to the 99day steel strike continued to mount today. One authoritative estimate is that by the end of the week the total, may exceed 750,000. That figure includes the 500,000 striking steel workers whose walkout on July 15 has thrown thousands of other workers in allied industries out of work. A United Press International survey shows that the crisis is steadily becoming more serious. Tom Campbell, editor-in-chief! of Iron Age, the national metalworking weekly, predicted that the number of men idled will run from 750,000 to 800,000 by the end of the week if in the meantime a Taft-Hartley injunction has not sent the 500,000 strikers back to their jobs for an 80-day coolingoff period. Crisis To Worsen “Tens of thousands of' workers in the metalworking industry are now on a reduced work week; I

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because of the steel shortage,” Campbell told UPI. “These numbers will skyrocket over the next two weeks. Many steel consumers will be shut down tight before they get fresh supplies. This means the crisis will become far worse after the mills start in.” The authoritative magazine “Steel” reports that hundreds of metalworking plants will be forced to close over the next 30 days for lack of steel. Shutdowns will occur even though the mills 'reopen, the weekly added. Stocks in many steel using plants are now low, the magazine said, and' they cannot expect normal shipments from the mills for 30 to 90 days after operations are resumed. , A UPI survey brought these reports from corr espondents throughout the country: Pennsylvania Hit Hard Pittsburgh said the Pennsylvania Labor and Industry Department sets the total of PennsylI vanians idled by the strike at'

234,556. This number inclues 166.600 strikers. The report from this strike center stated: “Some 53,877 workers in related industries are eligible for unemployment compensation This represents a rise of 4,429 from the week ending Oct. 9” In the Philadelphia area about 20,00 have been idled, mostly in industries that produce auto bodies and parts and home appliances. Latest Chicago area figures up to October 15 show 19,700 unemployed in secondary industries. There have been 2,800 jobless in the last two weeks and of these metal fabricating has contributed 1,800. The Peoria Caterpillar Co. laid off 8,00 at its plant complex in Peoria, 11., alnd 1,500 each at its plants at Joliet and Decatur. Detroit reported tha| by the end of the month Michigan expects to have 22,00 steel workers, 5,300 miners and 58,00 others (mostly auto workers) idled because of

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the strike. Shortages Force Layoffs Steel shortages have also forced layoffs at the Chevrolet assembly and Fisher Body plants at Janesville, Wis., the Chevrolet assembly plant at Atlanta and General Motors’ plants at Saginaw and Flint. Mich., adding 3.976 to the growing of idled workers. Director A. Thomas Rose of the Wisconsin employment service ; said 1.053 workers lost their jobs because of the steel strike in the week ending Oct. 14 and that “layoffs are beginning to snowball.” He reported that the total idle in the state is now 6,182“The pace of layoffs probably will increase,” he predicted. Kansas City reported that 3,900 have been laid off in that area. Os these 1,800 are in manufacturing, chiefly in fabricated metals. The California Bureau of Employment said that 1,200 persons have been directly affected by the steel strike in Los Angeles. About 7,200 are directly affected by the strike at the Kaiser steel plant at Fontana. There has been scattered unemployment in the San Francisco area.

The Minnesota Employment Security Department estimated 9,250 jobless in steel-related industries as of last week. St. Louis reported a total of 6,500 laid 0ff—4.500 in Chevrolet and Fisher Body plants and the , rest from various businesses. Unemployment to increase Louisville advised that. 3,700 are expected to be idled at the General Electric appliance part plant near Louisville by Oct. 30. In the Cleveland area 14,000 have been indirectly idled by the steel strike and the number is expected to be increased another 10.000 in the next two weeks. The Ohio Bureau of Unemployment [Compensation estimated that 20,000 secondary industrial workers have been laid off and that 80,000 steel workers, are unemployed in the state. Colorado reported about 9.000 workers idle. Os this number, it was stated, 8,500 are either steel workers or coal miners who supply the steel mills with coal. Indiana's idle in steel-related industries was put at 17,900 Birmingham, Ala. reported that in Birmingham and Jefferson County the best estimated is that

a total of 25,400 are out of work. At Bay City, Mich., the Electric Auto-Lite Co., which manufactures spark plugs, laid off 800 workers. . Other regions, however, have not been hard hit, lowa said the number of layoffs was not significant. Massachusetts’ ed due to the strike was put ax 1,213. State Grange Lauds A & P Food Stores ELKHART—The Indiana state Grange today praised A & P food stores for its contributions to agriculture and the consuming public during the past century. Recognition to the nation’s pioneer food chain was extended by the Grange at its 89th session here before more than 250 relegates. Presentation of a certificate of recognition was made to vice president Mark E. Pierce, head of A & P’s Chicago unit operating stores in this area, by state Grange master Robert J. Giltner. The Grange also recognized A & P as the found and leader in the field of mass distribution.

Expected Boom ForYear Is Out Window WASHINGTO (UPIQf — The economic boom anticipated for the last three months of this year is out the window. Government officials blame the steel strike. The boom had been expected to whittle unemployment to the lowest level in two years,. Offi-cials-also had hoped it would produce enough tax revenue to keep the federal budget in the black. But the narrow budget surplus of 95 million dollars predicted for the current year now is in grave danger of turning into a deficit and unemployment is expected to remain above 3 million because of the 99-day steel walkout. Expected Improvement Earlier in the year government officials had expected that a sus- i I

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tained improvement in the economy in October, November and December combined with usual | seasonal trends would drop unI employment in October to below three million. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell was so confident of this last I spring he offered to eat his hat i publicly if it didn’t occur. With I 3,230.000 persons out of work in September and layoffs in steelusing industries mounting, Mitchell is being advised to prepare to devour his fedora. The economists, meanwhile, exi pect that the October-Novembcr- ’ December boom will be stretched | out. An earlier estimate of a 495 billion dollars annual output ratq,.. of goods and services in the three months has been abandoned as out of reach. Officials Not Alarmed i The government will report in I a day or two that total output in I July, August and September slid below the 484-billion-dollar annual irate posted in the spring. Officials are not alarmed over the slide which was very small- ( Abnormally high steel output and stockpiling in the spring 'gave the national output rate an artifiIcial boost. Opinions differ on whether the i strike and its aftermath will be inflationary. George W. Taylor, head of the presidential fact-find-ing panel which investigated the steel dispute! has said shortages, caused by the strike would tend Ito push prices up. But other experts believe the slowdown in economic expansion may work in just the opposite way. Planning Conference Scheduled In Sfafe INDIANAPOLIS <UPI) — Lt. Gov. Crawford F. Pari er today announced a Nov. 30-Dec. 1 conference aimed at getting all Indiana cities and counties to set up I plan commissions. The Indiana Planning Confer- . ence will be attended by representatives of about 250 local planI ning commissions already in operation, as well as by public offiI cials and citizens of areas which Ido not have any map of future development. Parker, who also is director of the State Departm’ent of Commerce, declared that ‘industrial prospects in particular place enormous emphasis upon an analysis of the communities’ planning programs in their search for new - locations. ■ L j “They know that a good planning program demonstrates the j interest of the citizens and the j support of public officials for good i government. Many communities fail to realize the competitive disadvantage resulting from the absence of a comprehensive development plan while they are actively searching for new industry.’’ T.W Schulenberg, the Department of Commerce planning engineer, said 89 of Indiana's 108 cities now have active planning operations and expressed hopes the remaining 19 would voluntarily start' planning programs after they attend the conference and see “the tangible progress made in other communities. “It costs not to plan,” Schulenberg declared. “In the past five years, more than 50 Indiana cities have initiated planning programsThey agree that planning is common sense. In addition, there are 40 county and over 100 town plan commissions.” The conferees at the two-day meeting will hear discussions on urban renewal, functions of rural planning how planning pays, the state’s role in local planning and development, zoning administrative problems and reservation of open land for public use. An electronic computer at tha Atomic Energy Commission’s Argonne Laboratory is able to multiply 683.487.243.834 by 438.342.784,* 386 in about l/2000th of a second. HBT I * vHLJ Ikkl HEEDS 400 BLOOD DONORS — Maria Leventis, 12, who travc* 1 all the way from Greece for a heart operat on, o- takes a look at a blo>d cell through the microscope in 1 .ve'i'h Covenant- hospital m Ch. ■'g» Maria has arc. e t ~-e e; bloc'! end needs 400 < 3 b. u;i i she cun ui ier- • the up tian, originally - ta'eu fer £ ptember bat' r ’••jacl t.icavse of lack of i I. .’ i : 1 technic. n v .1 h.r is uui.h Ewait-