MORE UNEMPLOYED

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 34, 9 August 1934, Page 13

MORE UNEMPLOYED

POSITION IN BRITAIN

SOME TRADES SLACKER

MONTHLY FIGURES

(British Official Wireless I

BUGBY, August 7.

The monthly employment figures issued by the Ministry of Labour show that on July 23 last there -wero ap-, prosimatoly 10,136,000 insured per.sons aged 16 to 64 in employment in Great Britain. This was 27,000 less than the month before, but 394,000 more than the year before.

In most of the principal industries there wero only slight changes in tho general level of employment during July. In engineering, shipbuilding, and ship-repairing, electrical apparatus manufacture, shipping, and tho hotel service, the improvements shown in previous months continued, and there was a substantial increase in the number at work In coal mines.

On the other hand, there vero further reductions in tho cotton, wool, and worsted, tailoring, boot and shoe, g.nd motor vehicle industries, and employment among builders also declined. The numbers of unemployed were: 1,553,747 wholly unemployed; 492,872 temporarily stopped i and ' 79,641 normally in casual employment, making a total of 2,126,260. This was 33,674 more than the month before, ,and 315,905 less than the year before. The net increase as compared with a month ngo is partly accounted for by workers, 'chiefly textile operatives, registering themselves as temporarily stopped during Jociil holidays. These totalled about 20,000. There was also a considerable increase in tho number of unemployed boys and girls who had 311 st left school. .