UNEMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21961, 9 December 1936, Page 10

UNEMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN

♦ , DECLINE OF 294,960 IN LAST, YEAR __V_ ■ {•BRITISH OrrtfllAL WIRELESS.) RUGBY. December 7, The Minister for Labour (Mr Ernest Brown) estimates that at November 20, the number of insured persons agepl 17 to 64 in employment in Britain, exclusive of agricultural workers, was approxinaiel" 1,112,000—17,000 more than a month before and 56,000 more than a year before. At the same date, the numbers of registered unemployed were I, comprising . 1,367,492 wholly unemployed, and 188,643 temporarily laid off. The total was 11, more than at October 26, but 294,960 less than a year before. Of the inci'ease of 11,792 over the previous month, agricultural workers accounted' for approximately 9000 and part cf the - increase may, therefore, be attributed to the operations of the act under which benefit became payable as from November 5, 1936. to workers insured under the Agricultural Act. The occupations which showed the most marked change last month were in the building industry, where unemployment increased by 18,488, and coal-mining, in which there were 15,103 fewer unemployed. Both are seasonal movements.