Only Canada, of all major industrialized nations, has a higher percentage of jobless than the U.S. Canada currently has an unemployment rate of 11.1%. Employers in most of the other nations surveyed last week by the New York Times are scrambling to find enough workers to man their machines. Current unemployment rates abroad:
Argentina practically none
Australia 3.4%
France .3%
Germany less than 1%
Great Britain 1.6%
Israel .7%
Italy 5.4%
Japan 1.1%
South Africa 1.9%
Sweden 1.7%
U.S.S.R. claims labor shortage
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