Vanished Jobs Idle 60,000 in Baltimore Area: 60,000 Unemployed
Three vanished jobs show the profile of recession in Baltimore, where unemployment has now risen to the highest mark since the depression.</br></br>Steelworker Thomas Coley, 40, was laid off early in the winter at the Bethlehem Steel Co. plant at Sparrows Point, the worldÛªs biggest steel mill. Baltimore has three steelmakersÛÓand 8500 idle steelworkers.</br></br>Automobile assembler Moses Buchanan, 26, was laid off last October from General MotorsÛª Chevrolet-Fisher assembly works. Dealers are over stocked throughout the six-state area it serves and about 600 men are out of work.</br></br>gone out of the airplane business and into missiles. He is one of 1500 names on the company's layoff list.</br></br>Altogether, more than 60,000 men and women are unemployed in Baltimore and its four surrounding countries. That means eight out of every 100 working people are out of jobs.