UNEMPLOYMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1931, Page 5

UNEMPLOYMENT

NEARLY FIVE MILLIONS. U.S.A. UNEMPLOYED.

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(Received 8.55 a.m.)

WASHINGTON, Januarv 24

Chairman Woods, of the Presidential Unemployment Committee, has announced that complications on the basis of the life insurance statistics indfcate that there were from 4.500,000"t*i five million unemployed in the United State during the first week in December, equal to ten per cent, of the ber. equal to ten per cent, of those gainfully employed. ‘‘l nken as a whole, this confirms the conviction concerning the existence ol serious unemployment,” the report states.

A MILLION DESTITUTE.

WASHINGTON, January 23

“The relief calls to the Red Cross for food and clothing are so great,” said the Chairman (Mr John Payne) that close on a million will need help bv February. Our reports show that we are caring for 587, 084 field workers in tlib State of Arkansas alone. Wo estimate that 550,000 will he oh the Red Cross mils ill that State aiohe by February; This is more than a quarter r)f the population of the State, Relief has been extended to a number of counties in West Virginia, Alabama, Virginia and Ohio by the National organisation, as the local resources of the community and chapters are exhausted already caring for the drought sufferers.

FRANCE’S UNEMPLOYED.

STEADY INCREASE. PARIS, January 24

The unemployed in France receiving the Government benefit increased last week by five thousand, making the total 22,464, while the trades unions give the total c'f unemployed as three hundred thousand.