FEWER UNEMPLOYED
RETURNS FOR AUGUST
Substantial decreases in all classifications of unemployed men for the month of August are given in the September issue of the Abstract of Statistics. Compared with the previous month the total, exclusive of 8000 men on sustenance but unfit for employment and also exclusive of men in full-time subsidised employment, is shown to have fallen from 3929 to 2154. The total given for July, 1937, is 38.679.
Men registered as unemployed . at August 27, but not receiving relief, are shown at 881, a fall of over 35 per cent, on the figures for July. The total on rationed relief work is 913, a decline of 26.6 per cent, on July, and the total on sustenance awaiting placement is 360, a decrease of 72.7 per cent.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1938, Page 11
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130FEWER UNEMPLOYED Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1938, Page 11
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