BRITISH INDUSTRY
INSURED PERSONS IN EMPLOYMENT
TRADE DISPUTES LAST YEAR
(British Official Wireless.) Rugby, Muy 13.
The Ministry’.of Labour’s,annual report for 1927 shows that the average number of inquired persons in employment last year was greater than in any previous year. The unemployment was 9.6 per cent., . compared with 12.3 in the previous year. The number of trade disputes and the number of working days lost by these disputes were the lowest recorded during 40 years'for which'statistics are available. The report states that one important feature ofthe year was the growth of a definite movement, in which all sections of the community dismayed tin interest, towards industrial peace. That movement crystallised in an invitation from the employers to the trades union to meet for joint consideration of fundamental factors in industrial relations.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 191, 15 May 1928, Page 6
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