MODE EMPLOYED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 238, 5 September 1933, Page 7

MODE EMPLOYED

FIGURES FOR BRITAIN. INCREASE OF 57,000. A MONTH’S IMPROVEMENT. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received September 5, 11.0 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 4. There were 9,857,000 employed in Britain on August 21, or 57,000 more than in July. This is 648,000 in excess of August, 1932. The improvement has continued in the iron, steel,_ engineering, shipbuilding, electrical, woollen, hosiery, shipping, hotel, coalmining and building trades, whereas tho tailoring, boot and pottery trades have declined.

The total entirely unemployed is 1,843,517; temporarily, 483,432; and casually employed, 84,188.

PUBLIC WORKS SCHEME.

NAVAL REPLACEMENT PLANS,

SPECIAL CABINET MEETINGS

Received September 5, 12 noon. LONDON, Sept. 4

It is believed that- Britain is at present considering naval replacement plans, particularly among cruisers, work on which may shortly be commenced as part of the Government s plans for productive public works to relieve unemployment. It is understod that Mr Ramsay MacDonald is eager for the adoption of some form of public works which the economists and Mr S. M. Bruce and tlie Dominion representatives persistently advocated at the World Economic Conference, but the Government, particularly Mr Walter Runciman and Mr Neville Chamberlain, opposed it. The Sun believes that a series of Cabinet meetings, of which to-morrow’s will be the first, will discuss a scheme. Meanwhile, the major naval problem in the near future is Japan’s demand for parity with Britain and America, which nobody cares to prophesy bow it can be denied.