THE SURPLUS MAN-POWER
Comparisons can be confusing. The British Minister of Labour, Mr. Oliver Stanley, has pointed out that if you compare employment figures, [hey are not so bad. In the United Kingdom "(he number of people in employment is now within a few thousands as great as at any time within history." That is lo say, employment in the United Kingdom can point to almost as big an army [of employed persons as ever. But unemployment can point to figures which far exceed those of unemployment before the War, so that while in one way the comparison looks not bad, in ihe othev way it is distinctly bad. The slack created by growing population is not being taken up; and absorption of the surplus is rendered more difficult because of cessation of emigration. The margin of workless may be reducible in the future by emigration; by the development in this machine age of new employments to compensate for employment that machinery has for the time being taken away; and by reduction of birth-rate. To forecast at what point balance will be restored between the several factors of population and employment is clearly impossible.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 145, 17 December 1934, Page 10
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194THE SURPLUS MAN-POWER Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 145, 17 December 1934, Page 10
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