UNEMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN
AN IMPROVEMENT OVER ,
LAST YEAR .
(•BJTISH OFFICIAL WI»«L*S9.‘,
RUGBY, October 5
A seasonal decline in employment in hotels and boarding houses and in distributing trades and the building industry, as well as an in the number temporarily laid off in coal mining, ip all amounting to more than 34,000, explains the rise of 10,399 in the total numbers of unemployed last month compared with August. The Ministry for Labour estimates that at September 21 there were approximately 10,966,000 insured persons aged from 16 to 64 in employment in Britain. This is 5000 more than the month before, and 488,000 more than, a year before. At the same date, the number of registered unemployed totalled 1,624,339, comprising 1,322,934 wholly unemployed, 232,122 temporarily laid off, and 69,283 normally in casual employment. This was 10,399 more than at August 24, but 334,271 less than at September 23, 1935.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21907, 7 October 1936, Page 9
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