BRITAIN’S UNEMPLOYED
DEGREASE IN NUMBERS (British Official Wireless." Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, March 8. The Ministry of Labour estimated that at February 22 tho number of insured persons, exclusive of agricultural workers, in employment was approximately 11,187,000; or 81,000 more than a month before, and 662,000 more than a year before. At the same date the numbers'of registered unemployed in Britain were 1,627,845, comprising 1,391,932 wholly unemployed, 161,634 temporarily laid off, and 7*4,079 normally in casual employment. This was 61,378 fewer than at January 25, and 397,176 fewer than a year before.
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Evening Star, Issue 22593, 10 March 1937, Page 9
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92BRITAIN’S UNEMPLOYED Evening Star, Issue 22593, 10 March 1937, Page 9
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