Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-07
VARIOUS FIGURES
ON JOBLESS GIVEN
Authorities Disagree on Total
of Unemployed-C
ton Worldwide.
BY JOHN F. SINCLAIR.

NEW YORK, November 7.-Unem-
Z ployment Is Worldwide The official
labor figures for October in Great Brit
ain showed 2,176,191 persons were out
of work, compared with 100000 at the
same time last year. Germany has 81
100000 idle, with the number increas-
ing rapidly. Italy, under Mussolini,
now reports more than 100000 idle.
I. The number of unemployed in other
countries even last Summer was three
and half times as great In Finland
land Rumania as last year, whhe the
number almost trebled in Belgium and
smore than doubled in France. Neither
lands and Poland.
The British Department of Labor
says that there were large increases IN
the number of persons out of work last
Fall over the Fall of 1929 in Italy,
Great Britain, Switzerland, Hungary,
7Czechoslovakia and Austria and
slight increase in Ireland and Sweden.
How about the number OF idle IN the
United States today? According to the
Department of Labor, there were 1857
per cent fewer persons employed in the
a major industrial groups than for the
same period of 1929. If this percentage
of reduction is applied to the estimated
47O00,000 people gainfully employed in
1929 1t shows an increase OF about A.
300 900 in unemployment over Septem-
Der, 1929.
The Brookmire Economic Service es-
Inmates 100000 are unemployed. Prof.
Souires of Chicago says 100000 people
are out of work. John FitZpatr1ck.
president of the Chicago Federation OF
Labor, estimates 80 per cent of the
union members in that city are job
less.
Decline in Living Cost.
The decline in the cost of living from
August of last year to the same month
this year, the Brookmire Economic
Services estimate to be only 81 per
cent. Wholesale prices, in the mean
time, have dropped IA per cent Thus
retail prices are still relatively high. 1T
is in the latter item that reductions
must be made If reductions in wage
earnings are to be partially Offset" says
this service.
What are the prospects for relieving
unemployment this Winter? There is
little chance at the present time for in
creased employment in regular lines; so
practically the only relief this Winter
will be found in the non-productive
work, which is being planned by the
different cities, States and charitable or
CARNATIONS in an effort to alleviate the
present crisis.
It is in this field that the work of
Col. Arthur Woods and his staff will be
of especial benefit.
Group Insurance.
Group insurance is making real head
way in American colleges and universe
ties. The cheapneSS and efficiency of
the group idea appeals to many of them
as it has to some of the larger indus
trial plants.
Recently, Dartmouth College entered
into group life insurance contract with
the Equitable Life Insurance Co. of the
United States to insure the lives of 500
members of the faculty and employees of
the college for total of more than
$2.000,000.
Under the arrangement, college pro-
fessors are eligible for $4,000 insurance,
instructors and staff assistants, $1,000,
and other employees $4,000.
This form of insurance is being recog~
nized as an ideal plan for the officers
and employees of corporations which are
unified and dependent.
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