UNEMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN
The Irreducible Minimum (British Official Wireless.) (Received September 15, 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, September 14. Speaking before the economics section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Blackpool to-day, Sir William Beveridge said that what used to be spoken of in Britain as the irreducible minimum of 2 per cent, of unemployment due to friction and seasonable causes, as recorded by trade unions in the boom years before the war, must clearly now be put much higher—not as high, perhaps, as 8 per cent.; but probably between 6 and 8 per cent, or, in round figures, between 800,000 and 1,000,000 unemployed. Whether this was a real increase of unemployment or was only the result of complete records not hitherto being available could not be stated with certainty.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 301, 16 September 1936, Page 9
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132UNEMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 301, 16 September 1936, Page 9
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