LOOKING FOR JOBS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 90, 18 April 1939, Page 13

LOOKING FOR JOBS.

JAPAN'S NEW UNEMPLOYED.

TRADE CONTROL EFFECTS. Of particular interest to New Zealand at the present time in view of the Import Control Regulations, is the experience of Japan under similar conditions. Like New Zealand, Japan has instituted control of imports and exports, and has also adopted exchange control.

The "Japan Trade Monthly" journal, issued by the Osaka Chamber of Commence, for March, 1939, states that 88,305 shop owners have been forced out of business as a result of the operation of the Control Act. This was the number of small and medium-sized business and industrial interests which suffered under the materials mobilisation enforced from June 23 up to November 30. The number of employees thrown out of work in Japan totalled 286,302.

During November 4307 persons who lost their jobs permanently shifted to other vocations, and 18,195 employed persons likewise changed jobs. In spite of strenuous persuasion by the Government, those who returned to farms during November numbered only 500 among independent shop owners, and 2500 workers.

Detailed returns for the various districts of Japan show that Government control of industry has had far-reaching effects in the numbers of employers and employees thrown out of work in all parts of the country. The number of those who have found new employment is stated to be so small as to be almost negligible.