THE UNEMPLOYED.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 117, 10 February 1908, Page 7

THE UNEMPLOYED.

MARCEL TO LONDON. ONLY: EIGHTEEN ARRIVE. DI TBLEOBirn—rUESS . ASSOCIATION—COPJIUGHT. London, February 8. i Tho,fifty: unemployed, who left Manchester on tho march to London gradually dwindled away. ■■: t Before reaching Watford, some! becamo dissatisfied with . .the -.arrangements, and tho Salvation Army paid .their return fares., v Only oighteon- reacho'd London. These aro now-.marching to - Windsor, after forwarding the potition. . A• memorandum., on- tho state :of the English'' .labour market in November, prepared by . the Labour Department' |6f the : Board 'of 'Trade; .for .tho .'Board of Trade Labour Gazette," states"Employment in November showed- on the whole :;some decline,. both-" as compared with, the; pfovious month, and as compared with .'a year ago! -In coal iriihing and'in tho .textile^trades',generally employment (remained food, and there-was : a'seasonal improvement ,m the .printing and; bookbinding trades. In the, building,:and shipbuilding' iinduelries it was bad." As compared with a.yqar previous, there was: an 1 improvement .in employment in coal, mining, and-in most ofi.the .toxtile and; clothing. trades, and a deplino in the metal, engineering, .building," arid' furnishing, • and' woodworking trades: In tho ■ 272 '.trado unions, with a-net'membership, of- $39,G75;-making returns,; 32,010 (or 5.0 per cent.) were reported as unemployed 'at the-orid of November, 1007, as coihpared;-with' : 4.7:per' cent.-at the end of October, 1907,•,and:4.5 percent, at the end of November. 1903. . y '.' . . -'