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SHOWDOWN WHEN?

far off.

The Unemployed

The Ministry of Labour recently published an analysis of unem- ployment in Britain according to age.

The results are rather surpris- ing. "Unemployment is heaviest, of course, among the older men; the percentage. among men between 45 and 64 is 18.5. Among men between 16 and 24 the percentage is only half as much

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and among the largest group, the men between 25 and 44; two-thirds as much

12.1. But this or- der is not universal. In port Jabour, for instance, the high- est percentage of the three groups is among the young men -the appalling figure of 30.5. In silk and rayon, in vehicle construction (apart from mot- ors and aircraft, and in general transport the young. unemployed are proportionate- ly more numerous than are the middle group.

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These are not industries employ-

ing an unduly large amount of ...young labour, and the explana

tion must be found in their wasteful organisation.

Two things have become crystal

clear since the Japanese occu-In pation of Hankow. The first is Japanese reluctance to pursue the campaign any further, if it can possibly be avoided. The second that all pretence that real meaning attached to as- surances of respect for third party rights will soon be aban- doned.

Hankow has not had long to

some industries in which the proportion of the older unem- ployed is high is found the in- fluence of the long-standing un- employed, the consequences of contraction of their trades since the war.

wait for its experience of Food and Income

what, in effect, Japanese occu-

pation of foreign areas means. One of "the hardiest fallacies in

Within two days of the hand- ing over of control of the ex- British Concession from Brit- ish bluejackets, a series of complaints and protests have followed.

existence is that much under- nourishment is due to the ignorance and not to the poverty of the undernourished. It probably continues to exist. because it is a comforting thought for those who are bet- ter off but also conscious of de- privation among others, but it deserves to be categorically corrected from time to time. The "British Medical Journal' publishes the report on an in- quiry into the income and diet of fifty, representative London families. Every precaution was taken to make the results as accurate as possible, and they are as conclusive as one could wish (or fear). Thirty-seven of the fifty families had not enough money to pay for the minimum food laid down in the~B.M.A. standard once they had met their house- hold expenses and rent; for seventeen the minimum stand- ard was impossible as soon as the rent alone had been paid.

If the Japanese intended to de- monstrate that foreign resid- ents are not wanted in Han- kow, nor or at any other time, they could not have acted with more - despatch or employed more effective overt methods, those of making life uncomfort- able and unpleasant. Announcement that the Pearl River continues' dangerous to shipping owing to the presence of mines is reminiscent of the excuses employed to deny for- eign shipping their rights to use the Yangtze and, unless some sort of stand is made, it is savouring of optimism to assume that there will be no hitch when the fortnight men- tioned in the statement of the Japanese authorities is up. Meanwhile, although foreign and

Japanese reports are not alto-As the gross income per head a gether in agreement as to what

steps the Tokyo to-morrow,

plans to announce. there is unanimity about this: that the Japanese will declare their intentions regarding the future of China, that these in- tentions permit of no acope for foreign interests, except here and there by kind permission of the Japanese Government; and that Japan is looking to ́ ́ Germany and Italy in Europe

to restrain any impulse to wards resentment by the Brit iah and French Governments. In this challenge to the West-n

ern Powers to look realities in the face, the United States in

week in thirty-five of the famil- ies was ten shillings or less this is not surprising. When the investigators asked some parents how they would spend. 88. a head per `week on food they found that such a sum had never been seriously con- templated; it was quite outside their conceptions of house- keeping. However, most of them gave the theoretical ans- wer that they would have "three proper meals a day and more fruit, vegetables, and milk and eggs."

innumerable homes that ans- wer remains entirely theoreti- cal.