BRITISH EMPLOYMENT FIGURES
[British Official Wireless .l (Received 10 a.m.) RUGBY, February 4. The accentuation of the normal seasonal increase in unemployment at this time of the year, owing to the spell of unfavourable weather around the date of the count, and to the registration of large numbers of juveniles, who reached the school leaving age at the end of December, are the main features of the returns published in the evening by the Ministry cf Labour. It is estimated that on January 20 there were about 10,349,000 insured! persons, between the ages of 16 to 64, j in employment in Britain. This isj 250.000 less than a month before, but j 282.000 more than January 28, 1935. j At the same date, the numbers of unemployed on the register were 2,159,722, comprising 1,732,503 wholly unemployed, 345,117 temporarily laid off, and 82,102 normally in casual employment. This is 291,157 more than • on December 16, 1935, but 165,651 less than a year ago.
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Northern Advocate, 5 February 1936, Page 4
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