BRITISH UNEMPLOYED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 212, 6 August 1940, Page 7

BRITISH UNEMPLOYED.

INCREASE RECORDED. REASONS EXPLAINED. (British Official Wireless.) Received August 6, 11.30 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 5. The increase of 60,431 last month in the number of unemployed in Britain, announced by the Ministry of Labour to-day, had been foreshadowed, in public statements by the Minister of Labour (Mr E. Bovin) suggesting that such a result was likely as a temporary effect of tho deli Iterate plan of the Government to decrease home consumption and concentrate displaced labour on tho production of essential goods. The transfer of workers from non-es-sential to essential production, Mr Bevin claimed, would need time to carry out before the balance of employed labour could be regained. The Ministry of Labour and the Board of trade are working together as closely as possible to arrange for the absorption of displaced workers in munition making and export trades with the minimum hardship. The increase in unemployment is also, partly due to the loss of coal markets on the Continent of Europe. The figures show that the increase is particularly noticeable among women employed in tho. textile and clothing industries, and among those tomporarilv employed in the coal industry in which the actual number of unemployed is still as a. whole very low. Over all industries the number of wholly unemployed', men was fewer by over 46.060. The total figure of unemployed on Julv 15 was 827,266, against 766,835 a month ago.