BRITISH UNEMPLOYED
Total 294,960 Fewer Than a Year Ago (British Official Wireless.) (Received December 8, 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, December 7. The Minister of Labour, Mr. Ernest Brown, estimates that at November 20 the number of insured persons aged from 17 to 64 in employment in Great Britain, exclusive "of agricultural workers, was approximately 1,112,000, 17.000 more than the month before and 56.000 more than a year before. At the same date the numbers of registered unemployed were 1,623,602, comprising 1,367,492 wholly unemployed, 188,643 temporarily laid off and 67.467 now fully in civil employment. The total was 11,792 more than at October 2G, but 294,960 less than a year before. Of the increase of 11.792 over the previous month agricultural workers accounted for approximately 9000. and part of the increase may therefore be attributed to the operation of the Act under which benefit became payable as from November 5, 1936, to workers insured under the Agricultural Act. Industries which showed the most marked change last, month were the building industry, where unemployment increased by 18,488, and coal-mining, in which there were 15,103 fewer unemployed. Both are seasonal movements.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 64, 9 December 1936, Page 5
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