. Personnel and employment problems in industrial management ... is well knownin advance, and can therefore be provided against. It is claimedthat the influence of irregularity in work is offset, for the skilledmechanics, by a higher rate of wage. This, however, does notapply to the unskilled men, who are the hardest hit here as else-where. Some idea of the irregularity in the building trades maj^be secured by a reference to the fluctuations in employment of arepresentative construction company doing a general constructionbusiness, as shown in fig. 16. E. The Longshoremen It is a well-known fa
. Personnel and employment problems in industrial management ... is well knownin advance, and can therefore be provided against. It is claimedthat the influence of irregularity in work is offset, for the skilledmechanics, by a higher rate of wage. This, however, does notapply to the unskilled men, who are the hardest hit here as else-where. Some idea of the irregularity in the building trades maj^be secured by a reference to the fluctuations in employment of arepresentative construction company doing a general constructionbusiness, as shown in fig. 16. E. The Longshoremen It is a well-known fact that chronic unemployment existsamong the longshoremen and dock workers in any large port; £ -c: c 3-- (D ^ o S c: c o - > =^ 3 — o -<— cy —. 5i c o ^ -o ^ t wrtJ V ^ if) i_ — 1.£ e :S-i:t: /)_^ c:^ -^ cy -».^ x> ^ <b» O h .n ar: fD - o iD c: rt) r; i= •— cyfO — !e ij V o (TI ^ _fp J W (T)•^ i- - -o ( ^39W3)3a ^39U3AON. P M Ainr 3Nnr AVW iiadv W)8VW Aavna93J AavnNvr Steadying Employment 31 and these conditions hold among the negroes and Poles and south-east-European dock workers of Philadelphia. In the absence ofexact statistics, the statements of superintendents of labor ofsteamship companies and the heads of docking concerns throw thebest light on unemployment among the dockmen. The head of onestevedore firm says,—If every steamship company were employingtoday as many dock-hands and longshoremen as it employed onits busiest day last year, one-half of the dock labor would still beidle. Another says,—I do not believe that the dock-handsaverage over two days a week. Although the wages per hourare relatively high,^ the time lost is so great that the average weeklywage is low. In view of this lack of statistics for Philadelphiadockmen, the statement of the situation in New York may betaken as probably fairly typical of Philadelphia. Both employersand employes in New York testified before the Federal
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