INTERNATIONAL: Germany Leads

Unemployment, as statesmen are fond of stating, is “worldwide.” Last week the International Labor Office at Geneva published statistics, admittedly “incomplete,” tending to show how many people are jobless today in 20 countries:

Unemployed Population

Austria 158,000 6,526,661 Belgium 64,000 7,923,077 Canada 20,000 9,796,800 Czechoslovakia …. 37,000 14,523,186 Denmark 25,000 3,434,555 Finland 4,000 3,582,406 France 1,000 40,745,874 Germany 3,184,000* 62,348,782 Great Britain 2,100,000 44,173,704 Hungary 20,000 8,368,273 Italy 400,000 40,796,000 Netherlands 25,000 7,625,938 Norway 20,000 2,649,775 Poland 240,000 30,212,962 Palestine 5,000 852,268 Rumania 23,000 17,393,149 Russia 1,150,000 147,013,600 Sweden 26,000 6,087,923 United States 4,000,000 122,698,100 Yugoslavia 7,000 12,017,323

Thus Germany leads, proportionately, in unemployment (one German in 19 jobless) with Great Britain second (one Briton in 21 jobless), and the U. S. third (one U. S. citizen in 30 jobless). But the International Labor Office figure for U. S. unemployment is 500,000 greater than the 3,500,000 now conceded by the Hoover Administration. Adds the I. L. O. report:

“France is the only country where unemployment actually is under control, although it is diminishing rapidly in Russia.”

*Germany’s, not Labor Office figures.