GRADUALLY DECLINING
BRITISH UNEMPLOYED TOTAL (British, Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, December 23. A reduction of 55,000 was recorded in the latest weekly returns compared with the preceding week, which brings the total of unemployed registered to the lowest figure recorded since last May. From the end of September to December 14, the latest date for which figures are available, there has been a decrease of 252,000. About one-quarter of this total is probably accounted for by the application of “ the anomalies regulations.” The biggest employment increases have been "in coal mining, cotton, and transport. The total number of men, women, boys, and girls wholly or temporarily unemployed, added to that of persons normally in casual employment, was on December 15 2,300,000.
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Evening Star, Issue 20985, 26 December 1931, Page 9
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123GRADUALLY DECLINING Evening Star, Issue 20985, 26 December 1931, Page 9
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