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Show Russ Claim Great Gains In USSR Reich Zone In far better position as regards housing. Suffer Shortages The American tone, now merging merg-ing economically with the Industrial Indus-trial British sons, has been beset by chronic shortages of coal steel and raw material The Soviet cone is rich in brown coal (lignite), to which many of its industries are adaoted. By KJ CHARD KASISCIIKE BERLIN, Dec 27 CT) The Russian Rus-sian zone of Germany richer in raw materials, food and housing than the western zones has made a speedier economic recovery and claims to have practically eliminated elimi-nated unemployment, according to figures made available Friday The last Russian report to the four-power directorate here, for September, showed 180,000 unemployed unem-ployed out of a registered able-bodied able-bodied worker population of approximately ap-proximately 7,500,000. At the same time, the American zone reported re-ported 480,000 unemployed out of an able-bodied employables total of 6.500,000. Since then, however, the German Ger-man central administration for industry in-dustry In the Soviet zone reported unemployment had been wiped out, with a total of nearly 7.500,000 men and women gainfully employed, em-ployed, Ne Check PoealbU Officials In the American military mili-tary government's man power division di-vision remarked that employment firur. from the Russian son. Despite these shortages, United States zone industrial production has been doubled in the past 12 months, but still stands at only 44 of the 1936 level. All zones of Germany have had to take in many refugees and expellees, ex-pellees, but In the western zones it has been harder because of a greater lack of housing and food shortages. The American zona now has 2,000,000 mors people than the territory contained before the war.. In the British zona, population is up 3,000,000. Between last Jims and September Septem-ber the American zona gained approximately ap-proximately 1,000,000 in population, popula-tion, while the Soviet zone gained only 400.000. In the aame period. United States zone unemployment increased from 460,000 to 480,000, while the Soviet zone reported a simultaneous decline in unemployment unemploy-ment from 300,000 to 180,000. hare to be accepted at face value, because we have no entry there to check them." The figures from the German central administration were published in the Soviet military mili-tary administration's official newspaper, news-paper, Taegllche Rundschau. . These flguree said that 18 months sgo. shortly after the German Ger-man capitulation, the Russian tone had three million working for wages and about one million unemployed. un-employed. At the end of November, Novem-ber, the central administration aid, there were 6.600,000 wage and salary workers snd more then 1.800.000 others working In Individual Indi-vidual enterprises. The administration reported this was accomplished despite a big Influx of refugees and new settlers. It added that employment of women had mounted by approximately approxi-mately 13 and that training courses for apprentices had in- . creased to an enrollment of 350,000. Commenting on the, figures, American military government of- ' finals remarked that several factors fac-tors combined to make the western west-ern tones' economlo situation less favorable. Western sone industries indus-tries suffered far heavier bomb damage. The Soviet sone also is |
