The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-07-14
|World Statistics
Disclosed By nO
Increase In Unemployment
Labor In g Countries

Geneva.-World unemployment sta
itistics for the second quarter of 1888,
which have just been compiled by the
international Labor Office, show that,
compared with the corresponding
quarter of 1887, unemployment has in
creased in nine countries. These are:
the United States, Canada, Belgium,
the United Kingdom Great Britain
and Northern Ireland), Ireland,
France, Denmark, Bulgaria and Nor
way. Compared with the previous
quarter of 1888, however, unemploy-
ment, the statistics disclose, has de-
clined in all except the first three.
Thus, in the second quarter of 1898,
the statistics reveal, the United States
had 11,129,1O7 unemployed, 2,S16,279
more than in the corresponding quar-
ter of 1887 and 156,1O7 more than in
the previous quarter of 1888.
Canada had 6,94S-16,525 more
than in the second quarter of 1887 and
26,O82 more than in the first quarter
Of 1898; while Belgium had 14l ,499-
16,S30 more than in the second quar-
ter of 1887 and 5,201 more than in
the first quarter of 1888.
On the other hand, the United
Kingdom, with 1,77S,S05, had 3Sl ,SO5
more than in the second quarter of
1887, but 28,712 less than in the first
quarter Of 1888; Ireland, with 97,571,
had 9,O91 more than in the second
quarter of 1887, but 1888 less than in
the first quarter of 1888; and France,
with All 1886, had 37,549 more than in
the second quarter of 1887, but 1854
less than in the first quarter of 1898.
Denmark, with 93,342, had 1868
more than in the second quarter of
1887, but 33,8SO less than in the first
quarter of 1888; while Bulgaria, with
9,4O2, had 3,053 more than in the sec
ond quarter of 1887, but $500 less
than in the first quarter of 1888; and
Norway, with 22,93S, had only 9lO
more than in the second quarter of
1887, and 1878 less than in the first
quarter of 1888.
Besides the United States, Canada
and Belgium, the statistics disclose,
four other countries had more unem-
ployed in the second quarter of 1898
than in the first quarter. Chile, with
a total of 1892, showed an increase OF
455; Czechoslovakia, with 2O4 ,132, an
increase of 26,160; Hungary, with A.
423, an increase of 1921; and Ru-
mania, with 10,907, an increase of
1864. But in all these countries there
was a decline, compared with the sec
ond quarter of 1887.
/ Index numbers of persons in en-
ployment, made public at the same
time by the International Labor Office,
reveal that between the second quar-
ter of 1887 and the second quarter Of
1888, the volume Of employment in
creased in all but four countries.
The four exceptions were: the
United States, where employment de-
clined from 97.5 per cent of the 1929
average in the second quarter of 1897,
to 76.O per cent in the second quarter
of 1888; Great Britain, where the de-
cline was from 1922 to ll0.7 per cent;
Belgium, where the decline was from
S6.5 to SOL per cent; and Luxembourg,
where the decline was from 1872 to
TAP per cent.
Thirteen countries, the index num-
bers disclose, had more persons in en-
ployment in the second quarter of
1888 than at the peak Of the prosperity
: period in 1929.
Estonia, with l44.3 per cent of her
1929 average gain. of so per cent
over the corresponding quarter of
l937-led all the rest. The Union OF
South Africa was next with 1859, a
gain of AS per cent. Then came
Japan, with 1856, gain of 14.6 pei
, cent; Australia with 1850, gain OF
10 per cent; Latvia with 1925, a gair
of 1877 per cent; Sweden with ll6.1
gain of 4.3 per cent; Great Britain
with HOT, a drop of 1.5 per cent
Germany with 1903, a gain of SIS pei
cent; Finland with 1892, a gain OF
: A per cent; Hungary with 1888, g
e gain of S.3 per cent; Yugoslavia, with
1913, gain of rs per cent; Ital!
: with 1857, gain of 100 per cent; anc
Norway with 1920, gain of 10 pei
S cent.
y Czechoslovakia, with employment al
), 9l.6 per cent of its 1929 average
e showed gain of Al per cent over The
: corresponding quarter Of 1887; Polant
with 92.5, a gain of IL per cent
t France with S0.3, gain of 3.5 PEE
t cent; the Netherlands with IT'S a gain
of 20 per cent; and Switzerland will
77.7 gain of 2.7 per cent
In making public these statistics
e lLO officials cautioned that since tn
|, method of compiling them differ
from country to country, as well a
l. the sources from which they come AM
dates for which latest figures ar
u available, they cannot be accepted a
accurate measurements but only as in
dicating trends.
Steel has come down in price NOR