FEWER UNEMPLOYED
BRITISH INDUSTRY RECOVERY. QUESTION OF SHORTER HOURS. (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, March 5. Speaking in the House of Commons during the debate on unemployment, the Minister of Labour, Sir Oliver Stanley, drew attention to the fact that last December more people were employed in British industry than ever before.
In 3334 chronic unemployment affected no more t)ian 400,000 persons, ho said. Of a total insured population of 12,750,000 60 per cent., or 7,750,000, had been continuously employed and tho average period of employment of the remainder had been 32 weeks in the year. All but 400,000 had hope of work in their ow r n industry and locality and could best be helped by restoring greater prosperity to industry. The material for the great and special schemes was for the 400,000 chronically unemployed and not for the whole of the 2,000,000 on the register. Sir Oliver Stanley pointed out that the question' of shorter hours was an international problem. Any international convention must provide that all the signatories meant shorter hours without lower wages.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 7 March 1935, Page 5
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