Show WORLD SURVEY SHOWS S BOER BETTER YEAR IN LABOR International Review Organ Organ Ori Or Or- i gan of League of Nations Na- Na 1 Responsible for f Optimistic Reports j I x LONDON May 12 By A. A P. P t r Th unemployment situation throughout the world is favorable Compared with that of ot a year car ago I ITh sa saVa the current Issue of ot tho the Inter- Inter Labor jew Rex the monthly month month- i ly IX J publication of ot tho the International labor InDor office of t tho the league of ot nations at Geneva Gene The periodical has just finished a IL worldwide survey on un- un employment I Jn France Belgium unemployment Is almost nonexistent In opi America employment was exceedingly good toward the close 1922 as compared with 1921 th though gh In Canada figures for October October October Oc Oc- Oc- Oc tober and November show a contraction con con- traction as compared with previous years Year US S. S ON oi UPGRADE I In In the States employment has hns been steadily increasing during dur- dur ing g the past year and business con- con continue to improve e Prot Pro- Pro t Suction was very good during Janary Jan- Jan iary ary 1923 and apparently no one onea onen onea a n y year ar ago expected such a a. rapid rt recovery over In the United Kingdom the general genral gen gen- eral ral unemployment ment index numbers I I thaw how little change at the end of or ort oft I t t January Januar 1923 as compared with De December Dember 1922 The activity In I 1 coal mining in steel sheet manufacture manu manu- facture and in the worsted orsted indus indus- i tl tri tr- was try i was satisfactory but most of t 1 1 1 the other principal Industries are areL L under the spell of ot depression In the Scandinavian countries I l' l and In the Netherlands the l J tion shows improvement t I t ITALY ITALY RECOVERS In In the tile Italy Itay great Increase of ot the numbers unemployed u recorded the thet c t end of ot the year ear was due to pl ment In the mining and outdoor Industries as well as in ture Polish Industries were J I lively active dring the he ast last three I months of ot 1922 and a comparison j with the corresponding month of ot j last year shows that unemployment J has bas as greatly diminished In Swit- Swit I I unemployment 1 Is still de- de dining Austria and ad Germany are aro the I only two countries for tor which unI unemployment unemployment un un- un- un I employment figures figured show V a substantial sub sub- j Jonly increase at the end of ot 1922 as B compared with 1921 It has been I estimated that Austrian industries y Were tere working at 40 per cent of ot I their capacity at the end of ol 1922 rt r In n Germany seasonable reasonable unemployment I ment went In the building Industry is especially acute this year Employment Employ Employ- ment In the metal electrical and I c chemical industries Js is still sUlI good the Ute decline being chiefly In the printing food tood and building trades |