UNEMPLOYED AMERICANS

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29361, 14 November 1960, Page 25

UNEMPLOYED AMERICANS

Autumn Rise “Significant”

(A’.Z. Press Association—Copvright) WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.

Unemployment in the United States increased by 191,000 to 3,579,000 in October. H»e normal tendency was for unemployment to decline in the autumn. Department of Labour officials said. Some Democratic leaders said during the last days of the election campaign that the Government was deliberately holding back the figures because they would harm the chances of VicePresident Nixon.

The Director of Manpower at the Department of Labour (Mr Seymour WoMbein) said today that the overall figure could have been published earlier. He said they are available about the first of every month. But it was the usual procedure to hold up the figure until supplementary data was available.

Employment declined from 67,767,000 to 67,490,000. October usually brings a seasonal increase of about 400,000 jobs. The number of long-term unemployed, those idle 15 weeks or longer, rose to nearly 1,000.000.

Mr Wolfbein said that if the present unemployment rate continued to climb it would reach about 5,250,000 in January or February. He described the movement as “significant.”

There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly —but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.— Samuel Johnson.