BRITISH EMPLOYMENT
Record Level Reached
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received June 9, 5.5 pm.)
Rugby, June 8.
A further marked decrease in the numbers of unemployed is shown in the return for May Issued by the Labour Ministry to-night. The Ministry estimates that at May 25 the number of insured persons aged from 1G to 64 in employment in Great Britain, exclusive of agricultural workers, was approximately 10,832,000, the highest ever recorded in Britain. This was 119.000 more than at April 27 and 472,000 more than at May 20, 1035. Agricultural workers became insured at the beginning of May, but statistics of the numbers of such workers In employment are not .vet available. At May 25 the numbers of registered unemployed were 1,705,042, the lowest since April, 1930, comprising 1,397,755 wholly unemployed, 225.285 temporarily laid off, and 82,002 normally in casual employment. The total was 126,188 less than the month before and 339,710 less than a year ago.
GERMAN UNEMPLOYED
Berlin, June 8.
Unemployment throughout Germany decreased by 272,000 during May, the new total being 1,491,000.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 217, 10 June 1936, Page 9
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