BRITISH UNEMPLOYED.
SEASONAL INCREASE. (British Official AA’ireless.) RUGBY, Feb. 11. It is estimated that at January 28 there wore approximately 10,053.000 insured persons in 'employment ill Great Britain. This was 195,000 less than at December 17, and 175,000 more than at January 22, 1934. The decline in employment was most marked in industries which ordinarily experience a seasonal setback in January. At January 28 the numbers of unemployed persons on the registers of employrnent exchanges in Great Britain were 1,882,034 wholly unemployed, 353,994 temporarily stopped, and 89,345 normally in casual employment, making a total of 2,325,375. The total was 239.558 more than the number on the registers at December 17, 1934, and 63,095 Jess than a year before.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 65, 13 February 1935, Page 7
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118BRITISH UNEMPLOYED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 65, 13 February 1935, Page 7
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