LABOR SITUATION IN THE PFALX

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• Publication Date: February 18, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

COUNTIRY
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PLACE
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The b fidget of the Pfalz Labor Office smogs the
rsnf idea a. 13
vsh1 ch are
Ri;C;e1,pts ?' ?1? er Uton ci the O'l-fice
(14 Jrl,; ne 1.945 to 31 December i'947)
u._ -acelpt .- ncl 1. a.lanuary to
:3;1. Decerrb r 1947
Rece1 pta
Adrnlnistr?ative expensea
L"Ypen,sez for wage compensation (stoppir
cork for lack of electrtc current ate.)
E penses i?r professtona1 training (fox, re-
turned ms's:: etc)
Coritxibution to employee and invalid in-
urance (c ont.ributed since June 1945 ?-
12,02S,432h.2 3 R Y0
v,. 'M6044 vi` 6 he ot't 1 ce on 31 December 1947
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1947 was a year of unpsralloled. needs, in which the ind4striaal working population suffered
most. Unbeslthy living quarters, no hen t, inw ffioient clothing, worn-out shoes, and
umder uris)ment exposed people to the destructive a effects of severe cold during the winter
of 1946-1447 and made many permr ently unfit for work.
Of a large nianber of laborers exerainesd by physicians in January, only 14 percent wore
healthy. 70 percent were capable of liztitod work, and IS percent unsuited for work. Pro.
duetion of industrial and trade goods decreased beoauie of the shortage of prod, ~.tion
materials and coal resulting from stoppage or traffic. Great loss of personnel .rented
a need for afloat 7000 heavy and very heavy workers, which could not then be met,
In February the need for men rose to over 8000 with the, aoinnenoetnent of construction work
can the Rhino bridge at asucimiliansau, urgent building for Military Oovornraent, acid the
taking up of minefields. Only part of the previous month's deficiency could be made up
by transferring workers.
Periods of bad weather postponed the commencement of agriculture! work in various areas
until the end of '"arch n Adjustments had to be made in forestry for the departure of
wood-outtera to agriculture, Rhine shipping and railway freight traffic incroaass 2d and
gave a new activity to fires which had been shut down or working on a limited scale,, The
unfavorable oondition of means of transport. however -- particularly freight airs --
demanded utilization of much labor in repair shops. Export production was consi.iored
urgent, with workers employed up to full capacity in the lumber and wood-cutting,, natal,,
and textile mad clothing industries. Demands for manpower increased in spite of the rise
from about 6000 to over 10.000 available men. Industry began converting more trx feels
labor, as the possibility of receiving more male labor beosm sli;',htor.
The seasonal acceleration of, the labor market allowed the placement in April of about
9600 personnelawhile the reported vacancies for men and women rose to over 13,003. Agri-
culture, forestry, and the building, trades were in dire need of personnel. Sincs fresh
supplies of raw materials were insuff Loient, warehouses were emptied for export .-rod-uction
and pessimistic views of the future prevailed.
May showed no improvement. Transport difficulties becere more serious. 1ndustr,;>? and the
crafts had a relatively slight demand for labor, but agriculture and forestry aeu. fcartd,
Since the metal industries were liaai ted mainly to repair work, almost almost half the r?aqu:ire-
ments came from the construction industries. The lack of able-bodied men made t:.iaj Irv,
creased employment of women necessary.
In June the unusual summer drought deprived farmers of the fruits of their work, end
what the hest did not burn up the l are--. e of the Colorado beetle ate, Iuduustria,a lost
tools and machines through dismantling. The number of workers decreased as man :'ell out
from. physical wef,.knesa. Lack of available manpower kept labor supplies far below the
figures of previous months.
In July it was reported that the effieienby of labor was still falling and essee of iii-
Roos were increasing. The ratio of the number of employees to the amount of production
became less favorable, building services lacked material, since the shortage of freight
oars had resulted in dangerous ttoppageas. Workshops no longer fulfilled their quotas for
car and locomotive repairs. Special laborers had to be shifted from third into 1'iraat.=
rank production; for, even with men. returned from P6 camps, only a small part of the +ra-
cancies`oould be filled. In addition to the construction and metal firms working for Mil.,
itary Government, the stone and esrthware industries and the lumber and wood-nutting trades
were among those seeking manpower.
In August, by-drawing manpower from industry and the crafts, demands were filled pramaria
ly for the construction of the barracks at Kaiserslautern and the airfield at Spoyer, for
uncovering Wehrnrnoht cables, and for dismaantling. In addition, the needs of tlx:' forestry
services, sawmills, hard stone plants, various exporting
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2, Status of the Card Index
1s;!; ay ~.1~ '4 tel. /A ?. 1?... ~... 4.... w 7 n 10 AA
/ n w n . es r~vA -~ R 4-p
i..he ti nn1 M%vp004 to %-.-,L V 4V as Y{A V4.q Msi ~- Dei'u nbci A wTriri RS vii ~~w?s A. 14 t
status of 1. December 1947 (b) for the following categories:
A-Card File - Zmployed and available riorke?a and employees
3-Card File - Independents, including workers at home and hcusebold
trades
M-Card File Helpers in family businesses
B-Card File -'- Officials in public services
R-Card File Not available
'.'dTl
::~Cz rds a b Liffcr
:saplo; d 159,112 174,0911-14,979
,;val.lablo I,300 406 - 972
S-Ccsdo 50,130 55,196 t 5,066
1*--C4rda 14,190 15,590 4. 1,400
B-Cards t,549 8,265 - 2?0
if -C rti 25.1
2.5u,5. 5 23
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a
Total
b
D if i'cr
61,549
66,9+56 t- 5,417
220,661
241,057
4 20,:96
2,044
450 - 1,594
3,424
8;58
1 '66
6,047
9,468 4- 1,421
50,177
64,661.
55,624
59,705 t- 4,0.1
69,u14
75,295
i 5, ~C L
692
4 t- 12
9:240
;}, t ;2
.Si
61.502
9+.3.476 0:,914
S6.677
124-1-10
1,1,450'
227,679
447,993
515,766
X67,773
As the tables show, only the numbers of available unemployed and mai. public
service officials have decreased. The total of all other card files, an
the other hand, has become significantly higher. The progressive In",exing
of the population in the age grours capable of earning a living (men of 14
to 65 and women of 15 to 50) is expressed primarily in the enlar;erner,t of the
3, X. and f files.
Of the female population, an estimated 60,000 persons are not yet included
in the card files. The greatest part of these, as housewives, are not con-
cerned in productive employment and therefore raise the number of R cards.
The rest are predominantly assistants in family businesses. Among the
90,476 R cards, there are 82,844 cards for women occupied with houac~.old
affairs.
The R file for men, among 34,334 cards, ineiude the following:
15,846 cards for persons permanently for work
7,240 cards for non-working personnel over 65
819 cards for political prisoners
599 cards for other prisoners
464 cards for released PWs still n a :? 13 of work
8,833 cards for pupils and students
533 cards for other persons not available for productive work
The cards for laborers are most informative:
4,210 seriously injured
7,107 released PWs commencing productive work for the first ti c
7a835 young men reported as journeymen or apprentices
l2 Increase, without other immigrants
for men, the balance of only 151,000 to 19,000 Iiffer. ence between the initial
and final status shows a loss of over 4000.
For women, about 3000 young women are in apprentice positions, showing a
gain of 2400, which can be counted on the side of new employment of v,om.en
workers.
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D 1 , 3iy", l1 ,799 65.0
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D ;U Ity 1 _..4 "1,,433 1.L,s2
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s:ricuiture ;dici ior,.:.?z)try
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7,609 11.6 27, 511 i . 5 3O,/fl ,t
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- Ilout;e:,O.1d - ervice
Agriculture anti forest" have 900 fewer men than in the previous yea.:";
industry arc: cr e 10,000 more men, This is not a favorable. :.Osult
in comparison ARc the i.ncrea a of 6?000 Ln the ' ivisi.ofs of commerce ,Anc
trad6 ' and public service. The majority of public service entrants ?a':-e
seriously wounded. With the exception of the industry arv: sir:all
crafts . division, all economic divisions together have 15,400 more men than
in 1938; industry and crafts., on, the other hand, employ 32,600 fewer
men. This is a 22.5 percent loss of personnel,, The number of women i; only
1700 lower than in 1938
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14,400 stronger, household servi a about 4100, and commerce and tr dE: about
2600 lcmer than in 1938. Industry and crafts in comparison with 1938
show a loss of 9400 worrion, or 28.8 percent. The proportion of women workw-
ing has beq,ro smaller; in 1938 it was 18.4 percent and it is now 17 per..-
cent, so low a -figure that it appears urgently necessary to point out, the
disparity,
So far orl;r the following branches of economy from industry and small.
trades hav
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arger numbers of women workers:
Clothing trades
Ps.rmasens 3, 309
Kaiserslautern 1,,, 150
Chemical industry
Ludwigshafen
All other districts are small
Food and staples trades (divided into
2,940
5 labor offices, excepting Pirmasens
and Zweibrdcken)
Textile industry
Kaiserslautern 1,862
Neustadt 618
7.234
3p 440
3,148
2973
Landau, Ludwigshafen, and Zwe.ibrfcken Insignificant; Pirmrasens
not represented.
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in several official districts,:. General advancement in the interest of
is recommended, in addition to the inXhuatries mentioned above, in:
Electrotechnical industry
Precision maohexnIca and, optics industry
Musical instrument industry
With the following ooneideratione:
4.,:x75 71,,31,!
Men
The total of about 268,000 men of working age l4--65) may be compared to the figure of a.
25+300 men capable of work (of whom 85% have already exhausted their working capacity in
heavy and very heavy labor before roachim; the age limit). 6500 of those working have al-
ready passed the age limit. About 16,000 of the unemployed are permanently incapacitated
for work. The eleotroteuhnioal, precision mechanics and optics, and musical instru mont
industries could employ in many light positions men of limited capacity, men over age,
and men disabled for heavy work.
Women
Of' about 290,000 women between 15 and .0 only about 137,000 have been working pro-
duotively and 60,000 of these are assistants in family bueineesee. In the card files
abo.tt 60,000 can be excluded, with an ostimated 80 percent employed in housework or an
aas:;stents in family businesses. About 12,000 women, however, could be obtained for
.prod,uotivo work if the revival of industry and crafts could be 24-T, fiOOG so that the
E durtriess nentior,.ed above oould be adee ,uatoly reconstructed in all areas.
4 n i;r:. ,loved '..orikerj ? nd on 1 lieccJ. or 1946 w-;(! 1 Uece:..u~,r 1`)47, by
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26.9
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45,792
26.3
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17,9117
11.
167
11.1
fir.. ions 15,735
9.9
`7,501
10.1
6;)oyer
14,385
9.0
16,078
9.3
4:,501
5.3
9,011
5.2
. rtIcken
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159,112
100
174:091
100
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13 j 200
14,. j4 22 7
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3,001
3,7.E
:.:inoro
1,675
,661
)tone rk
2,096
2,401
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7,7 9
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131
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tu,
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0,957
7, .1
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4,598
14,769
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1-1.2-1916
1C:,369 29.8
5,950 9.7
15,329 24.9
6,491 13.8
5,958 9.7
5,027 6.2
2,4,..5 3.9
c)1,549 100
lC,039 27.0
6,738 10.0
17,2,61 26.6
9,383 14.0
6,358 9.5
6,107 9.2
-:`,480 3.7
9,602 10, 580
703 '738
99 104
0C 2 8
1,378 1,540
27 25
1, 4:24 1,6092
336 31.
353 348
3 256
a ,030 1,901_
5, 5`, 2 5,369
1,...rbcr ;
971
1,..1.'0. 718
zc~~.: toc
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937
1027
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576
503
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364
383
I ra, do
15,594
17,2278 1
1,777
i,au:>c:.rk
378
400 L-.9 66,3
9,648
S3ic t;
L>,,499'
21,6)6 1,..66
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{i,!52
10,a.:2
achLnist
,;~,431
1,473 3
C c:t,.::Q rco
18,7`.8
14,377
TC-CllniC,, I
.3,901
4 . 76
C ther ^
2,:345
4 ,
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61,283 27.8
23, 52 10.7
57,375 26.0
26,408; D2.0
210693 `7.8
19,412 C.
10,926 4.9
22,60'2
3,702
1,;x75
%?,195
33,332
:3
9,147
1..
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2,176
1.,20,'3
1,270
7,200
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1-12
34,927
27.0
26,112
10.8
63,653
26.4
28, 750
11.9
23,939
9.9
22,185
9.2
71,491
lc.8
41.057
100
r4,8 07
1,, 506
2,64
2?50
.34,/32
59
9,388
160
2,371
I, 215
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12,112
?.4)51
1-4, 094
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1,
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19,104
14,4 i
13,041.
14,3:8
11,109
11,109
5,375
5
27,0373
5,{31
x,752
:5,/ 1
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2,434
1,4'77
164
240
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1:,329
2,x%49
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total 17.7,r l 11.2 _ 1~ a1;i T 5
j6 2, 72 1. 3;290 1.9[ i,
7/8 1:4 5 2.0 3,901 2.3 366
9 751 0,5 1,029 0.6 71
10 13 i4 - 1
1/12 1, 513 0.9 11193 0.9 40
1 /16 4,990 .1 5,474 3.1 541.
17ia 1,451 '1.2 1.2,147 7.0 1,232
17b 946 0.6 1,266 0.7 31
17c 163 0.1 184 0.1 8
17d 1,925 1..2 2,407 1.4 66
17e 21 - a.. - 3
18 20716 i,`1 3,.765 1.8 342
19 447 0.3 54 0.3 118
20 20,286 12.8 21,145 12.1 3,,058
21 1,549 1.0 1,865 1.1 2,220
22 1,231 0.8 1,413 0.E 5?-.5 0.9
23 1,048 0.7 .1,337 0,2. 546 0.9
24 1,025 0.6 1,206 0.7 556 0,9
25 316 0.2 585 0.3 77 0.1
26/28 2,151 5.1 9,6+03 5..5 716 1.2
29 59 140 0.1 5.. 0.1
30/35 6,027 3.0 6,855 4.0 3,155 5.1
.36/38 7,137 t; , 5 7,562 4.3 6,7-3 10.9
:;9a 2,060 1.3 2,140 1.2 219 0.4
39b 17,662 ?1.1 18,335 10.7 331 0.5
39c 3,988 2.5 1-,432 2.5 84 0.1
.39d 156 0.1 132 0.1 6
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yr 3 301
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1 2,876
1.6
0.4
0.7
2.9
5.7
0.4
0.1
,42 0.5
134 0.2 L"22
2 - 14
50 C'.1 1,553
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