45 Industrial Centers On 6% Jobless List
The Labor Department designated nearly one third of the NationÛªs major industrial centers as areas of ÛÏsubstantialÛ unemployment yesterday.</br></br>Such ÛÏsurplus laborÛ labels] are given to areas with morei than 6 per cent of their work*! or force idle. They now apply! to 45 of the 149 major areas j covered by the departmentÛªs1 survey.</br></br>The departmentÛªs Bureau of: Employment Security re-j ported that a year-end survey showed that joblessness increased somewhat in almost all of the NationÛªs principal industrial centers. In some| places, it reached the highest: level since the 1949 and 19531 recessions.	:</br></br>Among areas added to the 6 per cent list in the past two months were Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Newark, N. J., Louisville. KvÛ_ Kansas City, Mo., and Portland, Ore.</br></br>The Labor Department said there was a slim chance that rising unemployment might taper off slightly by mid-TVIarch.