Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1914 — 500,000 GERMANS ARE IDLE [ARTICLE]

500,000 GERMANS ARE IDLE

Trade Unions Report From Two to Six Applicants for Every r Job. ■■ 111 Berne, Switzerland.—Figures made public by the German trade unions place the number of unemployed In Germany at 500,000. The same authority says that the average number of applicants for every 100 places open Is from 200 to 300 in Berlin, Breslau, Hanover, Frankfort, Dusseldorf and Strasburg; 350 in Bremen and Hamburg, 492 In Leipsic, 629 in Dresden, while in nine other Important cities the average number of applicants for every 100 jobs ranges from 160 to 200 c