Job Picture Is Brighter When Closely Examined: Working Overtime
A close look at last monthÛªs unemployment figures shows that the economy may be a good deal healthier than the disquieting jobless rate of 5.8 per cent would indicate.	*	:	Û</br></br>It also suggests that many of non.white maIes wcrc out ÛÓif not mostÛÓof our employ- of ^ ment troubles are the con- A large part oå£ XcÛ_ro w. corn of the sociologist rather employment has been attrib-</br></br>The figures show that the sijjjis_ xon-wbitc workers are highest rates of joblessness concentrated in the relatively occur among teenagers, adult unskilled segment of the labor force where jåÇ bless rates arc high.</br></br>But many Negroes who; arc surprisingly low. In pre- acquire skills never get a senting the detailed Septem- chance to put them to use. her report on the labor force either because of employer last week. Labor Department attitudes or because of cxclu-manpower expert Seymour sion from labor unions, parti- j Wolfbein pointed out there cularly the building trades is actually a shortage of per- and other craft unions. The sonnel in many fields of PresidentÛªs Council of Eco-t</br></br>Factory production workers averaged three full hours of overtime in September, equaling the highest level since the Department began collecting factory workweek, which had been edging downward since April, jumped 0.2 of an hour from August to 40.6. This was nearly a full-hour above the year-ago level and the /-highest for September sirwc Scxes. 1956.	Û÷