BRITAIN’S UNEMPLOYED
CHRISTMAS AFTERMATH
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Jan. 7
Following the Christmas season, a large increase of unemployment is notified by the Minstrv of Labour. On December 30 the total number of unemployed was 1.510,200. This was 206,643 more than ,oii December 16. A similar increase was shown the previous year when the total on December 31 was 249.578 more than that for December 17.
It is pointed out that owing to the dismissal of workers engaged for the ■Christmas trade and to extended shorttime working there is normally a large increase of unemployment immediately after Chritmas. ’The total number of unemployed at the end of 1929 nvas 10,530 less than that at the end of 1928.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 9 January 1930, Page 5
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