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Such, according to averages published last week by the municipal employment bureau and the Jewish Social Service Association of Manhattan-such is the composite story of today's unemployed, of Jim Jobless of New York City. Doubtless it closely resembles the averages to be drawn from data gathered in other cities. Last week Jim Jobless in most U. S. cities shivered in the year's first real cold snap as he joined the breadseeking or jobseeking lines. But relief work everywhere was getting under way and Jim Jobless could read the following in the news...
...Warned jobless against seeking employment in strange cities, where they stand less chance than at home...
...this one is built around a fascinating spy (Myrna Loy) and four comrades of the Legion, one of whom has been delegated to provide comic relief. Amid camels, shouting, Riffian war, death, seduction, the honor of the Legion is upheld by heroes who bear a startling resemblance to the jobless men who can be found most afternoons in the reading rooms of actors' clubs. Warner Baxter, who has been successful in adventure cinemas because he is what is called a type, continues to be a type. Miss Loy's competence is wasted on the disordered and incredible material...
Unemployment, as statesmen are fond of stating, is "worldwide." Last week the International Labor Office at Geneva published statistics, admittedly "incomplete," tending to show how many people are jobless today in 20 countries...
Thus Germany leads, proportionately, in unemployment (one German in 19 jobless) with Great Britain second (one Briton in 21 jobless), and the U. S. third (one U. S. citizen in 30 jobless). But the International Labor Office figure for U. S. unemployment is 500,000 greater than the 3,500,000 now conceded by the Hoover Administration. Adds the I. L. O. report...