MILLIONS WORKLESS
Serious Position in U.S.
OFFICIAL COMPILATION Washington, January 25. Mr. Woods, chairman of the Presidential Unemployment Committee, announced that compilations on the basis of life Insurance statistics indicate that there were 4,500,000 to 5,000,000 unemployed in the United States in the first week of December, being 10 per cent, of those “gainfully employed.” “Taken as a whole this confirms the conviction concerning the existence of serious unemployment,” the report states.' POSITION IN FRANCE Paris, January 24. Unemployed receiving Government benefit in France increased last week by 5000, making the total 22,464, while trades unions give the total as 300,000,
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 104, 27 January 1931, Page 9
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101MILLIONS WORKLESS Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 104, 27 January 1931, Page 9
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