By Contrast

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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