WORLD UNEMPLOYMENT

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4959, 23 February 1937, Page 4

WORLD UNEMPLOYMENT

PROFESSIONAL MEN AFFECTED. Figures contained in a bulletin issued recently by the International Labour Office showed (says the Melbourne Age) that during the last two years unemployment among professional workers continued to incerase, and there was scarcely a country which had not been acutely affected. In Poland, for. instance, estimates made in March last showed that 170,000 out of a total of 570,000 professional workers were without a position. In Switzerland at the , beginning of last year the number of engineers and architects registered for employment was 6000, and it was stated that this figure would grow to 20,000 if those not registered were added. The estimated number of unemployed university graduates in Germany was 50,000. In America, while the number of doctors' posts falling vacant in 1935 was 3000, the number of young doctors who left the various medical schools was 5000. Similarly, Wie bulletin pointed out, the medical profession was overcrowded in Germany. In Germany, where 1800 to 2000 new doctors are required every year, some 5000 medical graduates will continue to come out of the universities annually until 1938.