Nearly Half Million More Unemployed
TOSITION IN GREAT BRITAIN ! (British Official Wireless.) Received Tuesday, 6.30 p.ni. RUGBY, Sept. 5. The Ministry of Labour estimates : that at August 15 the number of insured persons in employment iu Great Britain, exclusive of persons within the 1 agricultural scheme, was approximately 11,402,000. This is 31,000 more than a month earlier bat on a comparablo basis about 300,000 less than a year ago. At tho same dato the registered unemployed, including persons within the agricultural scheme, totalled 1,759,242, comprising 1,262,343 wholly unemployed, 439,024 temporarily laid oil ana 57,875 normally iu casual employment. Tho total was 13,874 less than a month earlier but on a comparable basis 451,000 more than a year ago.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 211, 7 September 1938, Page 5
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