UNEMPLOYED IN BRITAIN
SLIGHT RISE IN SEPTEMBER (British ntnrinl Wireless! RUGBY, sth October. The seasonal decline in employment in hotel and boardinghouse service and in the distributive trades and building industries as well as an increase in the number temnorarily laid off in coal-mining, in full amounting to over 34.000, explains the rise of 10.399 in the total numbers of unemployed last month, compared with August. The Ministry; of Labour estimates that at 21st September there were approximately 10.966.000 insured persons aged from 16 to 64 in employment in Great Britain. This was 5000 more than the month before, and 488,000 more than a year before. At the same date the number of registered unemployed totalled 1.624.339. comorisins 1,322.934 wholly unemployed. 232.122 temnorarily laid off. and 69.283 normally in casual emnlnvment. This was 10.399 more lhan at. 24t.h August, but 334.271 less than at 23rd September, 1936.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 7 October 1936, Page 5
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