AMERICA’S UNEMPLOYED.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9173, 17 June 1908, Page 7

AMERICA’S UNEMPLOYED.

MORE THAN 4,000,000 PBOHS WANTING WORK IN UNITED STATES. According to statements published in New York, such business depression has been caused by the recent financial panic that 4,750,000 mechanics and labourers in the United States are unemployed. Since October, 1907, and March last more than 600,000 persons have left for Europe, through fear of unemployment, and Mr Herman Robinson, general organiser of the American Federation of Labour, which'has good machinery for collecting statistics, says that in New York city on April Ist at per cent, of the members of the labour unions were unemployed. The last report of the State Department of Labour gives the membership of the labour unions in New York city in September, 1907, as 286,470, and the present membership about 800,000. According to Mr Robinson, therefore, about 120,000 union men are now out of work in New York city alone. Messrs Dun & Company’s Weekly Review of Trade, the best Americas commercial index, stated that “Industrial reports show no improvement, the few cases of increased activity being' fully offset by the shutting down of other plants for six weeks or two months. Foreign commerce for the port of New York for latest week shows losses of £124,627 in exports and £688,965 in imports, as compared with the corresponding week in 1907.” These facts relating to the unemployed and trade in America may well be pondered by intending emigrants, who are also warned that until the Presidential' election is over no permanent improvement is anticipated.