PARADOX IN BRITAIN
INCREASED UNEMPLOYMENT SHORTAGE OF MUNITION HANDS LONDON, Oct. 17 "In the midst of the most intense rearmament in her history,- Britain faces a tragic paradox," says the Daily Mail. "While munition factories are calling for more workers, the unemployed have increased by nearly 500,000 in a year, and now number nearly 1,800,000. "There should not be one skilled man out of work, yet thousands are unemployed. Experts should be working day and night on munitions equipment, which would also stimulate the home market." The paper controverts the contention that the intensification of the manufacture of armaments will harm exports and says: "Germany in five years of colossal war preparations has almost abolished unemployment yet her exports have been well maintained." .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23175, 22 October 1938, Page 13
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