Spring Gain Fails to Cut Idle Totals: 6 Per Cent or More Jobless Now .
High unemployment persists across the country despite the spring pickup in business, a Labor Department report showed yesterday.</br></br>In mid-July, 89 major job] centers were classed as suffering from ÛÏsubstantial labor surplus,Û with 6 percent, or more of their labor force] out of work. This was an increase of three metropolitan areas since mid-May and was the largest total since the classification system began operating seven years ago.</br></br>The other 60 big areas all had "'3 per cent or more idled aryl were listed as having a ÛÏagpderateÛ labor surplus, ÛÏhe report is worrisome because seasonal shifts are eliminated in determining the category in which a city is to be placed. Therefore, the June influx of job-seeking; students did not distortf this picture as it did the over-all unemployment report in June.</br></br>Moreover, cities were tagged as high-unemployment centers only if there was prospect of little change through September.</br></br>In mid-June, total unemployment was figured at 5.4 mil: lion and the seasonally adjusted rate at 6.8 per cent.