WORKLESS IN BRITAIN
SITUATION IMPROVING;, SOME ENCOURAGING- PHASES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 9 a.m.) RUGBY, November- 5, During the first day’s debate on the unemployment problem ip, ~ the House of Commons, the Minister of Labour, Sir Henry Betterton, said ho believed it had been proved that tho efforts of the State to stem the -alenormal unemployment by expediting public works had failed, and that whatever usefulness they have had was now exhausted. In the year preceding September, 193.1, the number of" persons in employment had decreased by one- ; million. Last year, however, tho number in employment was. practically stationary. There had been no falling back, and only in tho minority of the-indus-tries had the position deteriorated. " New Unemployment figures would bo published on Monday. These would show an improvement. As ohe-thifd of the unemployed had been engaged in the industries mainly affected by world conditions, it was a matter of real satisfaction to the Government that the position had been largely maintained while conditions abroad were so seriously deteriorated.
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Northern Advocate, 7 November 1932, Page 5
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