BRITAIN’S UNEMPLOYED
A FURTHER INCREASE (Briti&h Official Wireless.) Press Association—By telegraph—Copyright RDGBY, August 9. A further increase of over 22,000 in the number of persons unemployed is recorded in the latest weekly return of the Ministry of Labour. Of the 15.000 men who have applied for harvesting work in have now passed the doctor. Seventy per cent, of these are unemployed minters, for whose relief the scheme for sending 10,000 harvesters to Canada was chiefly inaugurated. A very high standard of physical fitness is required in view of the heavy and exacting nature of the work.
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Evening Star, Issue 19942, 11 August 1928, Page 4
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96BRITAIN’S UNEMPLOYED Evening Star, Issue 19942, 11 August 1928, Page 4
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