WORLD UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 157, 4 June 1934, Page 10

WORLD UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES.

GENERAL IMPROVEMENT. The quarterly statistics of unemployment and employment in April published by the International Labour Office show, on the whole, that the improvement in the situation already disclosed by the figures for the last threequarters of 1933 continued during the first three months of the present year. The figures derived from compulsory unemployment insurance statistics show that in Great Britain and Northern Ireland there were, in March, 2,342,794 unemployed (wholly and intermittently), as compared with 2,914,914 a year previously; in Germany 2,800,000 unemployed in April, as compared with 5,598,855; in Austria, 352,451 unemployed in March, as compared with 401,321. The voluntary unemployment insurance statistics show in the case of Bel. gium 194,279 unemployed in January; in Denmark, 112,220 unemployed in March; and in the Netherlands 187,940 unemployed in March. The trade, union returns suggest that in Australia there were 95,745 unemployed in December, 1933, as compared with 115,042 a year previously; and in Canada, 29,000 unemployed in March, as compared with 36,490. Statistics .of unemployed exchanges and other estimates suggest that France had 383,901 unemployed in March, as compared with 369,862 a year previously; Italy, 1,158,418 in February, as compared with 1,225,470; Japan, 392,294 in November, 1933, as compared with 484,213; and the United States, 11,370,000 in March, as compared with 13,294,000. Figures from similar sources dealing with New Zealand suggest a total of 48,334 in January, as compared with 52,523.