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Unemployment in Great Britain (British official Wireless.) (Received April 1, 5 p.m.) Rugby, March ■ 31. The Ministry of Labour estimates that at March 15 the number of insured persons in employment in Great Britain, exclusive of persons within the agricultural scheme, was approximately 11,242,000. This was 55,000 more than the month before and 553,000 more than a year before. Adverse weather conditions on the day affected the figures, especially in Northern England and Scotland, but nevertheless employment showed an improvement over the previous month in most of the principal industries. At the same date the number of registered unemployed totalled 1,601,201, comprising 1,359,556 wholly unemployed, 167,677 temporarily off, and 73,968 normally in casual employment, and including about 20,000 previously unemployed but registered in March for the first time. The total of unemployed on March 15, despite additional registration, was 26,644 less than at February 22 and 280,330 less than at March 23, 1936.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 159, 2 April 1937, Page 11
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