BRITAIN’S UNEMPLOYED
POSIVICiI IKPROVIKG (British Official News.) Press Association —By Wireless —Copyright. RUGBY, March 30. (Received. March 31, at 11 a.m.) A further reduction of over 40,000 in the number of persons unemployed in Britain is recorded in tho latest weekly report of tho Ministry of Labor. The total unemployed is now 1,078,500, and ‘ The Times ’ states that in Ministerial circles it is anticipated that before Easter the figure will have fallen below 1,000,000 The only occasion since 1920 when a lower total than 1,000,000 lias been recorded was in the week preceding last year’s general strike.
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Evening Star, Issue 19521, 31 March 1927, Page 9
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97BRITAIN’S UNEMPLOYED Evening Star, Issue 19521, 31 March 1927, Page 9
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