BRITISH UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES
[British Official Wireless.} (Received 10 a.m.) RUGBY, December 7
The Minister of Labour, Mr Ernest Brown, estimates that at November 30 the number of insured persons aged 16 to 64 in employment in Britain, exclusive of agricultural workers, was about 1,112,000 or 17.000 more than in October, and 56,000 more than in the year before. At the same date, the numbers of registered unemployed were 1,623,602. comprising 1,367,492 wholly unemployed and 188,643 temporarily laid off. The total was 11,792 more than at October 26, but 294,960 less than in the year before. Of the increase of 11,792 over the previous month, agricultural workers accounted for about 9000 and part of the increase may be, therefore, attributed to the operations of the Act under which benefits became payable, as from November 5, 1936. to workers insured under the Agricultural Act. The occupations which showed the most marked change last month were in the building industry, where unemployment increased by 18,488 and coal mining, in which there were 15,103 fewer unemployed. Both are seasonal movements.
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Northern Advocate, 9 December 1936, Page 6
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