UNEMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, September 6,
Unemployment was down again last month. The Ministry of Laboiur estimates that at August 23 the number of insured persons in employment in Great Britain, exclusive of persons within the agricultural scheme, was approximately 11,562,000. This was 45.000 more than a month before and 490.000 more than a year before.
At the same date the number of registered unemployed was 1,358,621, comprising 1.088,885 wholly unemployed, 205,371 temporarily laid off, and 64,365 normally in casual employment. This was 20,858 less than at July 26, and 255,319 less than at August 24, 1930.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 60, 8 September 1937, Page 11
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