WORKLESS IN POST-WAR YEARS COMPARED
LONDON, June. 13. Viscount Addison, in a broadcast in a political series, compared the three years after the end of the first war was the three years after 1945. He said there were _ about 300,000 registered unemployed in April, 1948, whereas in November, 1921, there were 1,792,000 unemployed and an additional 252.000 on short time. Britain’s industrial production three years after the end o fthe first war was only a little over half of that in 1913. It was at a substantially higher level at the present time than it was in 1938.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22664, 15 June 1948, Page 5
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98WORKLESS IN POST-WAR YEARS COMPARED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22664, 15 June 1948, Page 5
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