UNEMPLOYMENT

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 October 1931, Page 3

UNEMPLOYMENT

DECREASE IN BRITAIN. [BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] LONDON, October 27. The decrease recorded in recent weeks in the numbers of unemployed continues. The. Ministry of Laboui ahonnneed to-night that there 28,868 less unemployed than in the previous Week. The total on the registers Of the unemployment exchanges at October 19 was 2,737,000. An encouraging factor about the decrease is that it occurs at a time when tho figures usually rise owing to seasonal interruption in various trades. DISTRESS IN U.S.A. WASHINGTON, October 27. Doctoi' John Ryan, of the National Catholic Welfare Association, testifying before the United States Senate Economic Committee, chhfgd'd the public officials and the influential classes of the United States with being indifferent to the human suffering that exists in the present time Of depression. Dr. Ryan assorted: “They all qeeffi to assume that their duty has beer, fully performed if hone ot the unemployed die of actual quick starvation”. Ho continued that at the same time the medical authorities have estimated that at. least one person starves to death in the United States every seven hours, and, as a matter of fact, the starvation Which has occurred was due to unemployment, and it was not all of the gradual variety.