31 Large Cities Have Substantial Unemployment
The Labor DeJSrtment added seven major cities, including the nationÛªs auto production center of Detroit, to its list of areas with ÛÏsubstantial" unemployment yesterday.</br></br>The announcement brings to 31 the number of large cities in the substantial category ÛÓ 6 to 8.9 per cent of the labor force out of work, This is the highest total of cities in nearly six years,</br></br>The other newly classified cities of 50,000 or more population on the substantial jobless list are New Orleans, La,; San Jose, Calif.; Bridgeport, Conn!; Battle Creek, Mich.; Corpus Christi, Tex., and Spokane, Wash.</br></br>The Labor Department also added 13 smaller areas to the list: Florence-Sheffield, Ala,; Oxnard, Calif.; Bremerton, Wash.; Dodgeville, Wis., and Ada, Altus, Anadarko, Clare-more, Cordell, Marietta, Oke-</br></br>A spokesman for the AFL-CIO said the labor federation had predicted several weeks ago that unemployment would continue to rise as a result of President NixonÛªs economic policies and ÛÏunfortunately the prediction we made earlier this month is coming true.Û