Show PROBLEM 0 OF IDLE NEEDS WORLD ACTIO N J Hf Whiting hiting Williams Believes Concerted Move b by y N Nations Nations Na Na- a. a 1 Will be Solution LONDON Oct 1 i By Mail to the tinted Press Tho Press Tho w world unemployment m ment nt problem will wilI better Itself with depressing slowness unless the various n nations ons can make concerted effort i This opinion was expressed expressed Whit Whit- by WhitIng Whiting ing Ing Williams form former r vice president of the the Hydraulic H drau Ste Steel l company of Cleveland Clevel Cleveland Cleve Cleve- l land d. d 0 O who has IS spent several ye years years s studying the labor problem and who Is s s now now visiting London after working all nIt the summer in the mines and steel stee plants of France and the v Unemployment seems considerably less in France than in Great Britain or America said Williams This is partly because of the sh shortage shortage shortage-or of French ench workers following the war casualties cas cas- and partly because of the French workers at present under arms WORKERS POORLY PAID K In Germany V the worl worker er is ls isIe Ie less s well weIl paid t than before the war In Tn general his ls wages have har hardly kept up with ith fre he 1000 per cent increase in the cost The middle classes including including ing teachers small property holders and nd the federal In the civil railway and postoffice services have been tremendously hard hit because their wages have hardly increased more than per cent I It appears to me all wrong to say say- that Germany has got back to normal The he real fact is that th German mines and mills are running simply because Germany Germany Ger Ger- Gert t many has not yet started to get back to normal norm I. I Her goods are sold abroad simply by reason of the advantage arisIng arising aris aris- ing from a currency which is constantly constantly constantly con con- depreciating Some day or other Germany must begin setting her financial house In order The result of f that will b be a period of vast unemployment unemployment un un- employment and unhappiness pIt rIt Is very evident evident- that the present situation sIt of unemployment Is international international international in Its dimen dimensions lons and also International international international Inter inter- national in Its causes inter ARMS LIMIT WILL HELP The situation will better itself with depressing slowness unless the various nations can make concerted efforts In International International In- In t causes must be met by Int in international international In- In t arrangements regarding the limitation of armaments should greatly great great- ly 11 help by saving of enormous sums of money But I should like to s see e Lloyd George or M M. Briand or President Harding call caIl an international conference confer- confer ence e for the consideration of such factors factors factors fac fac- tors in the situation as international International credits tariffs ate tc E rl f. M Briand expressed to me recently ili belief that the diplomats of the near suture would find international confer- confer ces on such subjects as s' s the lon on of unemployment quite as essen- essen lal ial to the happiness of their peoples 1 18 LS 18 the more usual problems of of boun boun- lanes laries and other similar affairs CertainlY n nothing thing the world so lays days Into the hands of all the forces if Jf unrest and revolution as ment nent to e IJ |