NUMBER WELL DOWN
LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYED IN
BRITAIN
(British Official Wireless.) (Received January 26, 1 p,m.)
RUGBY, January 25
A substantial reduction in the number of long-term unemployed, namely, those on the register for a year or more, was revealed by the Parliamen-
tary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour in the House of Commons.
He said a special count of the claimants for benefit was taken on January 1, 1940, when the figures were 136,000 as compared with 223,000 on August 14 last. The reduction was distributed all over the country arid affected to the extent of 25 per cent, those who had been unemployed for as long as five years or more.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 22, 26 January 1940, Page 7
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