RISE OF 10,400
UNEMPLOYMENT AT HOME
(British Official Wirelcss/j
RUGBY, October 5. The seasonal decline in employment in hotel and boarding-house service and in the distributive trades and the building industry, as well as an increase in the number temporarily laid oft in coal-mining, in full amounting to over 34,000, explains the rise of 10,399 in the total numbers of unemployed last month, compared with August.
The Ministry of Labour estimates that at September' 21 there were approximately 10,966,000 insured persons aged from 16 to 64 in employment in Great Britain. This was 5000 more than the month before, and 488,000 more than a year before. At the same date the number of registered unemployed totalled 1,624,339, comprising 1,322,934 wholly unemployed, 232,122 temporarily laid off, and 69,283 normally in casual employment. This was 10,399 more than at August 24, but 334,271 less than at September 23, 1930.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 85, 7 October 1936, Page 11
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194RISE OF 10,400 Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 85, 7 October 1936, Page 11
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