SEASONAL SETBACK
Employment in Britain (British Official Wireless.) (Received February 12, 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, February 11. It is estimated that at January 28 there were approximately 10,053,000 insured persons in employment in Great Britain. This was 195,000 less than at December 17, and 175,000 more than a: January 22, 1934. The decline in employment was mo>r marked in industries which ordinarily experience a seasonal setback in JanuAt January 28 the numbers of unemployed persons on the registers of employment exchanges in Great Britain were 1,882,034 wholly unemployed. 353,994 temporarily stopped, and 89,345 normally in casual employment, making a total of 2,325,375. The total was 239,558' more than the number on the registers nt December 17, 1934, ami 63,695 less than a year before.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 119, 13 February 1935, Page 9
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