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*8,000 HOMES STARTED DUR ING SEPTEMBER: YEAR’S REC ORD IN EXCESS '46 LEVEL Washington, D. C.~September yaw the start of 88,000 new per manent homes, an all-time high for that m«*nth, according to esti mates of the Bureau cf Labor Statistics. The total for the month exceeds the record of any previous month with the possible exception of the peak month in the spring of 15*25 which was the peak home con struction year in the nation’s history. Home building for the first 3 months of 1947 showed an in crease of 89,300 units over the Mmt period of 1946. So far this year 615,000 units have been put under construction. The September estimate is 2,300 above the revised total of 85,700 units started in August, and surpasses by 30,400 the figure for September a year ago. It is quite possible that, when all re ports are in. the total number of dwellings started this Sep tember may he even greater than ' is apparent from the information received so far. Preliminary <cstimatcs for other recent months have required upward revision when final figures were received. The high September level of housing activity prevailed in ail region* of the country and in practically all typo* of communi ties. Notable in September were important increases In the larger cities (for instance. New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore), in some of whieh housing activity had fallen off in August. Completions of new permanent family dwellings by the end of September totaled 576,000, and were more than double the num ber completed during the first 9 months of 1946. Estimates show that 77,000 dwelling units were completed In September alone, a 6,700 gain over August . and the largest gain in any month ‘ this year. TRUMAN CALL8 A ^ SPECIAL SESSION mr - fC—tinned Fro* Page 1) • Htionnl funds will be needed to maintain our position in occupied : areas. It is clear, therefore, that congressional action cannot be delayed until January.” NEW YORK STATE STRIKE ACTIVITY IN *47 ABOUT 50* BELOW RECORD LEVEL OF '4« New York City.—Strike activ ity in New York State ig about half that recorded for a similar period during 1946. according to the State labor Department. Preliminary statistics showed that while th^anumber of strikes in the first nine months of 1947 were riot much fewer than in 1940, the number of worker*, in i volvcd and of man-days lost from | work was less than half. I From last January 1 through i September JO. there were 518 i walkouts by organized labor re j corded in this state, compared with 633 for the corresponding three-quarters of 1946. This year's stoppages, however, in volved only 78,900 employes di rectly, compared with 377,904 last year. Man-days idle, which is the most important criterion in judg ing strike statistics, totaled 3, 686,200 this year as against 7, 587,151 in 1946. This meant about one-half of 1 per cent of the “estimated available working time” wag lost through strikes so far in 1947, whereas 1.07 per cent was lost at this time last year. Strikes in 1946 were by far the most serious in numbers made idle and production days lost in the history of New York State, I the aggregate of strikes reaching j 403,400 and man-dayg lost 8,769, 000 by the end of the year. Even though current strike activity is only half last year’s record rate, it is clear that 1947 will surpass the runner-up year of 1933, which recorded 3,880,929 man-days lost from production and wages. 20,000 ILL VETERANS 8TUDYING BY MAIL Washington, D. C.—The Veter ans’ Administration said that 20, 000 of the 92,000 patients in war veterans’- hospitals are studying correspondence |rourses ranging from college subjects to elemen tary reading, writing and arith metic. In some V. A. tuberculosis hospitals, up to 50 per cent of the patients are taking advan tage of a choice among 234 courses obtained from the Unitedj States Armed Forces Institute^ at! Madison, Wis. -L*£. REAa wORK, study UNDER GOOD DlPFUSED LIGHT! ' Make this simple test . . . move from on * *39. area of strong, well diffused light to o lamp where you must hold your book "just so" or miss its light entirely. Where do you feel mere relaxed and comfortable? r',_ And, still more important, which is easier on your eyes? Good lighting is so economical and so easily available today that most of us regard it as a necessity. It is the business of our Lighting Engineers to answer ycur questions abcut lighting. Why not call them at your nearest Duke Power officer* DUKE} POWER COMPANY >(jL L*vu*<***<U. Last Polio Health Hint: Avoid Sudden Chilling! Sadden chilling each as plunging into cold water on a very hot day should be avoided as the sixth and final health precaution that should be ob served in the polio season— June through September—the National Foundation for Infan tile Paralysis cautions through its local chapter. Scientific research financed by March of Dimes funds has j shown that when laboratory NO GOOD ITS BOY UKE ICE U Ml nir (Minn 1 ^ virus were suddenly chilled, > twice as many developed acute and paralysing attacks of the j disease as did a control croup which had been protected from j sudden temperature chances. Therefore, take no chances. To be on the safe side avoid sudden chillinc. the National Foundation advises. SWEDEN PLANS FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT AS BULWARK AGAINST “RED" INFLUENCE New York City. — Sweden has taken steps to assure continued full employment and stability in her economy as a precaution against any encroachment of the Communist philosophy. Thig is the general conclusion of an article written by Arnold S. Zander, president of the AFL’s State, County, and Municipal Employes Union, and published by the Workers Education Bu reau of America. The article is the fourth in a series on the general topic, “Sweden: Labora tory in Economic Democracy.*’ The information in Mr. Zander’s article was the basis for an op timistic declaration made to him by the Swedes that "for ten years at least there would be no unemployment in Sweden.” Por tions of the article are as fol lows: iney took me through public works planning as we think of it in this country. They have plans for streets and sewers, public buildings, schools, and all the other things our planning covers. But this is only a beginning. In Sweden the people themselves own and operate monopoly busi nesses in the fields of power, transportation, and communica tions. We have removed these monopolies from competition and have set up government bureaus to regulate them, but we have left ownership in private hands. “We have bureaucracy in regu lation; they have direct public operation. The critical differ ence, however, front the point of view of employment is that our monopolies in these fields will contract in case of recession or depression, while in Sweden em ployment in these areas will be expanded ag need in order to maintain full employment. "We went on frpm our kind of public works planning to plan ning for jobs in the expansion of public utilities and then to the number of man years of work in the improvement and exten sion of both land and air trans portation; and then to similar plans for jobs in telephone, tele graph and radio. "The Swedes asked me what our. privately owned monopolies would do in ease of major reces sion. and I replied that they would curtail operations. This seems obvious and natural to us. We don’t visualize any other pos sibility. That would not be true here,’ I was' told. ‘These monop oly enterprises, our public util ities in power, heat, light, trans portation and communications, constitute an enormous reservoir of jobs. These services will be expanded as necessary to control unemployment and to make avail able at cost to our private com petitive enterprises these services so that they can compete to bet ter advantage in world markets.' “A valuable by-product from this arrangement of things fias come to the Swedes. The taking of these utilities from private owners has removed power from those who would otherwise stand against social progress. S^The influences which gave us t he ^af t- H art ley law spring largely from reactionary forces in control of monopoly enterprises. In Sweden these have been re moved. The Swedeg live, as a consequence, in a more liberal atmosphere. It is for this reas on that they are not afraid of fascist dicctatorship from the right. “Their concern is about Com munism, which they say frankly might come if they were to ex perience depression and mass un employment. As a defense J against Communism they have planned for full employment as a means to a stable economy. Th%y have a sense of calm as surance which it, is a joy to see.:’ BUILDING EMPLOYMENT GAINS IN NEW YORK Employment in the construc tion industry in New York State showed a net gain of 6,000 work ers from July to August, a gain of three. per cent, according to a report released by the New York Department of Labor. Construction contractors em ployed an estimated 193,400 work ers in August compared with 137,400 in July and 177.200 in August 194. Average weekly earnings and hours remained at the same level. Employment est> m*te* rover all construction workers, both on-site and off site. Average weekly earnings and henrs are for site workers only. TRUMAN URGES PROMPT LEGISLATION TO' STEM INFLATION; AID EUROPE (Continued From Page 1) being crippled by economic par alysis and resulting chaos. “The moat imminent danger exists in France and Italy. If the economies of these countries collapse and the people succumb to totalitarian pressures, there will be no opportunity for them or for us to look forward to their recovery so essential to world peace. “Even with the proposed aid' from this country, the peoples of Europe this winter will be on short, rations. They will be coM and they will be without many necessities. But our emergency aid will be definite assurance of the continuing support of this na tion for the free peoples of Eu rope." 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