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WORLD-CRISIS: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS 263
hardly obtainable. Up tiH now unemployment has not
been an important item in American statistics. Germany
,and Great Britain are the only 'Countries which attend to
this branch of statistics very carefully. In regard to other
countries the figures are neither exhaustive nor comparable.
Indeed their reliability is questionable.
In January 1930 the United States Secretary of
Commerce estimated an unemploymept of some
·6,000,000. This estimate was based on surveys of 19
cities throughout the country. About the middle of the
Same year the calculations of the International Labour
Office (Geneva) yielded the result that the world's unemployed
totalled some 20,000,000. This was just twice
the number estimated in 1929. One notices that 30 p.'C.
of ,the world's unemployment was accounted for by the
U.S.A. alone. Compared to 1929 there was an
increment in unemployment in every country under
inspection with the exception of Denmark, Esthonia.
Latvia, Norway, Ireland and Soviet Russia.
The following table exhibits the figures relating to
unemployment collected from 15 countries 2
(part-time
and intermittent unemployed have been excluded from
the list) :
Country Unemployed Trade .Union Population
in Dec. 193O Members in
1927
1. United States 6,000,000 3,051,618 ~05,710,620
i. Gemoall$ 4,894,000 8,196,035 63,338,753
3. Great BritaiA 1.853,575 4,501.000 42,769,196
4. Italy ,642,16