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Show Berlin Supporting the Idle. BERLIN, Friday, March 28. (By the Associated Press.) The support of the unemployed is costing the municipality of Greater Berlin one million marks a day. A clerical force of 2300,- with a weekly payroll of 100,000 marks, is required re-quired to keep track of the army of work-less work-less people. The city council has voted an appropriation appro-priation of 160,000,000 marks for public improvements for the purpose of ameliorating amelior-ating the condition of the unemployed, which is rapidly becoming an economic and social menace. |