THE UNEMPLOYED MAN who is to tell his story at the microphone tonight will represent a class that is often overlooked. It consists of the men who work with their brains rather than their hands, and may be roughly divided into two—the executive and the clerical.
There is no unemployment insurance for them if their salary is over £250 a year. They are a type most difficult to help because they are most diffident to ask for it. They are out of work in practically every large city in Britain because the supply is greater than the demand.
They are, many of them, married, with children to clothe and educate. They have to dress well because their posts have depended on their appearance, and, out of work, they have stil) to dress well, or they have not a hope of getting another job. For some of them it has been impossible to save. Those that have been able to do so have had their nest-egg diminished by trade depression, or have had to live on it to keep things going until there is nothing left.
There are men walking about looking for jobs who have held responsible and high-salaried positions which they have lost through their firms failing. Their case is possibly as hard as that of any class of the unemployed.