INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN
BEMUSE 111 UNEMPL*VMENT (British Official Wirelsti.) frmm Association—By TeUgraph—Copyright RUGBY, December 7. The Minister of Labour (Mr Ernest Brown) estimates that at November 20 the number of insured persons aged 17 to 64 in employment in Britain, exclusive of agricultural workers, was approximately 17,000- more than a month before, and 56,000 more than a year before at the same date. The numbers of registered unemployed were I, comprising 1,367,492 wholly unemployed and 188,643 temporarily laid off. The total was 11,792 more than at October 26, but 294,960 fewer than a year before. Of the increase of 11, over the previous month agricultural workers accounted for approximately 9,000, and part of the increase may therefore be attributed tq the operations of the Act under which benefit became payable as from November 5, 1936, to workers insured under the Agricultural Act. The occupations which showed the most marked change last month were in the building industry, where unemployment increased by 18,488, and coal mining, in which there wore 15,103 fewer unemployed, both seasonal movements.
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Evening Star, Issue 22517, 9 December 1936, Page 14
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