RECOVERY IN BRITISH INDUSTRIES
EFFECT OF ARMS PROGRAMME NOT YET FELT (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) RUGBY, November 10. Suggestions that the steady improvement in home industries was attributable to Britain’s accelerated defence measures were repudiated b t the Minister for Labour (Mr Ernest Brown) in the House of Commons. ~ , , . ~ Rearmament, he said, had hardly yet contributed to this state of affairs, which was mainly due to private enterprise. The special areas, except in South Wales, were growing smaller. Even in Jarrow unemployment had fallen from 7600 to 3897. The surviving depression was mainly because of difficulties in the coal export trade. Efforts were being made to overcome them.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21938, 12 November 1936, Page 13
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