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264 WORLD-CRISIS: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS
Country Unemployed Trade Union Population
in Dec. 1930 Members in
1927
S. Poland 345,295 1,.184,314 27,142,674-
6. Austria 331.239 862,716 6,536,893
7. France 350,000 1,363,346 39,209,518
8. Japan 322,000 225,770 59,736,704
9. Rumania 4~,689 42,604 16,262,177
10. Jug~slavia 9,989 35,590 12,017,323
1\. Czecho~lovakia 239,564 1,651,013 13,613,172
12. Australia 90,376 729,155 5,435,734
13. Sweden 80,578 478,469 5,904,489
14. Holland 72,191 517;914 6,865,314
15. Belgium 63,585 732,935 7,465,782
It is clear that of the nearly twenty million
unemployed, the U.S.A. and Germany account for more
than 50 p.c. and that these two countries together with
Great Britain for 63·2 p.c. In other wo~ds, unemployment
as a world-phenomenon is at bottom really a phenomenon
of these three economic regions. This will be
more obvious if we examine the statistics somewhat closely.
The figures in column 3. indicate the trade union membership.
Trade unions are not well organized in every
country. It is questionable, therefor~, if one should seek
to exhibit unemployment, as is the custom,3 as a co-
. efficient of trade uni~n~embership. Let us therefore
. indicate the unemployment figures as percentages of the
tota~ population. In descending order the ·coefficier.ts
may be shown in the following 'manner:
3 Labour Year Book 1930 (London). pp. 57-63; Woytinsky: Zehn
Jahre neue. Deutschland (Berlin, 1929), PP.· 132.134; Probl~mes (1931),
pp. '109, 113, 116, 119, '124.