Building Trades Joblessness Up: Around the Nation
MIAMI BEACHÛÓThe unemployment rate among construction industry unions is 15 per cent nationally and is between 25 to 40 per cent in some cities, President Robert A. Georgine of the AFL-CIO Building; and Construction Trades Department said yesterday.</br></br>Georgine, whose department represents 17 construction unions with 3.5 million members, told, his 10-member executive council: ÛÏThe plasterers union has the highest rate of joblessness and it appears that the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is the least affected.Û</br></br>He said the cities with the highest unemployment rate in the building trades were Chicago; Oakland, Calif.; Flint, Mich.; Detroit; New York; Cleveland and San Francisco.</br></br>BOSTONÛÓThe author of a medical textbook testified that a fetus a doctor is charged with killing was already dead and the abortion was necessary to protect the mother.</br></br>Dr. Jack A. Pritchard, author of ÛÏWilliams on Obstetrics,Û said his opinion was based on physical evidence that the fetus had died during earlier attempts to induce miscarriage by non-surgical means.