BRITISH INDUSTRIES

Evening Star, Issue 20556, 7 August 1930, Page 11

BRITISH INDUSTRIES

DEPRESSION AND ACTIVITY CHIEF INSPECTOR’S ANNUAL REPORT (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By-Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, August 6. (Received August 7, at noon.) In his annual report issued to-day by the Chief Inspector of Factories and Workshops it is pointed out that the flourishing condition of the trades in the south of England has helped to restore the balance of employment during 1929. The employment in industry generally was far from satisfactory, and many of the leading trades of the country experienced very difficult conditions,. working far below their normal capacity. Among the trades that flourished, however, particularly in the south of England, were those connected with motor car building, wireless, _ gramophone, and electrical engineering, and certain branches of chemical works, furniture, artificial silk, paper manufacture, and sugar refining. The demand for the products of many of the miscellaneous trades carried on in the south, particularly_ in and around London, was so brisk as to cause in some works a shortage of suitable workers and to require considerable extensions of factory buildings. . OVER TWO MILLION UNEMPLOYED. LONDON, August 6. (Received August 7, at 12.15 p.m.) The Ministry of Labour states that the' unemployed in Britain number 2,011,467, of whom 1,257,982 are wholly unemployed.