UNEMPLOYED FIGURES
BRITAIN, FRANCE, GERMANY, AND AMERICA Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 7. (Received April 8, at 12.15 p.m.) In the House of Commons Sir Henry Betterton (Minister of Labour), answering a question, said that 1,220,000 men, women, and children in England and Wales wore at present receiving poor relief, compared with 1,005,000 at the end of September. Tho registered unemployed in Britain on March 31 numbered 2,581,000. The corresponding figures in Franco were 343,000, wh;ich, it is understood, represented only a small proportion of France’s unemployed. Germany’s figures were 6,129,000. The American Federation of Labour’s estimate of the wholly unemployed for February totalled 8,300,000.
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Evening Star, Issue 21072, 8 April 1932, Page 12
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106UNEMPLOYED FIGURES Evening Star, Issue 21072, 8 April 1932, Page 12
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