Labour, stated that unemployment in Russia threatens to become a permanent evil, and is a source of considerable anxiety to the trade tions and to the Commissariat of Labour. The number of unemploy ed inerensed in 1926 by. more thi 100,000, and at the end of the year the' Inbour exchanges registered 1,028,000 unemployed. To this statement of Mr. Schmidt should be added the fact that the number of unemployed trade unionists register fed with their unions is more than tone million, and that unemployed trade unionists constitute about onefbalf of the total number of the un= Jemployed. The total should, therefore, be put at more than 2,000,000 This does not take into account the fact that registration with the labour exchanges is optional, and that unemployed persons among seasonal workers, or workers who come from the country, fail to re~ sister with them, 'The Commissary of Labour described the situation anion young people 24 deplorable. According to representative of the Young Com munists there were more than a million. young persons under 18 years of aye' who.were entirely, without work, Representatives of various trade unions pointed out at the that, unemployment among was more serious than hed
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