POPULAR MISUNDERSTANDING
THE PERMANENTLY UNEMPLOYED PUBLIC WORKS SCHEME NO REMEDY (United Press Association— By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 21st December, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, 20th December. Addressing the Royal Statistical Society, Mr John Ainsworth Dale pointed out’there was a popular misunderstanding whereby it was supposed that million are permanently out of work, and that this was surplus to the needs of industry. The number of persons unemployed in the course of a year was really nearly 6,000,000, of whom the “bard core” of persons who were unemployed for eight or nine months out of last year numbered at the most 1,000,000 the remaining 5,000,000 Being’less unfortunate and a certain proportion suffering a little. Among the million were a preponderance of older and unskilled men and many others whom through prolonged unemployment were rendered unfit for work without considerable help. The facts left little doubt that if a large scheme of public works was undertaken as a remedial measure only a small number of unemployed could and would work on it.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 21 December 1933, Page 7
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