UNEMPLOYMENT.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20002, 9 August 1930, Page 15

UNEMPLOYMENT.

. __—• ■. BRITISH POSITION 13 * ' ANALYSED. • . f CHAMBERS of commerce | in f '' ■ . REPORT. ' ro p|H.l3 '" ASSOCIATION—M ELECTttIO i', lE*" TELEGEAPH— COPTiJIOHT.) I LONDON, August 7. : 5 unprotected state of the home et and the high cost of production •ring it impossible to meet world etition prices are the main reafor Britain's loss of trade and alarming increase in unemploy- , according to the report of the tive of the British Chambers of jerce, which has been presented 3 Government i report was compiled after taking iows of hundreds of Chambers ghout tho country. The roport wises that, in addition to'world ssion, dislocation of business is D the political troubles in India, If-rtjjoa. and Egypt, which have accen--feated Britain's difficulties. If she fcW' maintained her share of world 'gade the unemployed would be much fi*er. i-fbe report urges the extension of ilfognarding as essential. Certain flmnibcrs suggest the encouragement migration. The newspapers draw attention to iw unemployment figures. Besides fEa wholly unemployed, thero are temporarily unemployed, while yjWftfW'H'ho are normally iu casual work Ijjjdagsificd in a different way. An of the situation at tho end ot ! 3uiti. when the total of unemployed lw 1,911,749, showed that half were £ in a few trades. For inij|r(Hbcr textiles, 186,373. Eding. 117.082. ineering il manufacture. 83,296. building, 62,773. i estimated that 60,000 of tne increase is due to numbers added to the register as a re- ! the new Unemployment InsurAct removing conditions and ing facilities for benefit. "Morning Ppst" says: "It is ible to acquit the Government arge share of responsibility for sastrous position. The figures indictment, to which there is ence."