BRITAIN’S UNEMPLOYED
INCREASE FOR LAST MONTH.
[BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.]
RUGBY, February 6. The Ministry of Labour estimates that at January 16 the number of insured persons in employment in Britain was about 12,079,000. This is 184,000 less than in December and about 50,000 less than a year ago. At the same date the registered unemployed numbered 2,039,026, comprising 1,594,430 wholly unemployed 379,027 temporarily laid off, and 75,568 normally in. casual employment. This total is 207,654 more than the month before, and 211,419 more than last year. Of the increase of 207,654, more than 39,000 are accounted for by the first registrations of boys and girls leaving school at the end of the December term, while 84,319 comprise persons temporarily paid off. Part of the decline in employment is attributed to the severe weather which restricted outdoor employment at the date of the January count.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 8 February 1939, Page 8
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