STRIKING INCREASE
BRITAIN’S EXPORT WORKERS Rec 8 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 12. The Minister of Labour announced a striking increase in September of 131,000 in the number of workers employed in export trades. Eighty-one thousand are in the metal engineering and chemical industries, and 50,000 in the textiles, clothing, boot and shoe, and pottery industries. Men and women engaged in work for the export market at the end of September totalled 1,719,000 compared with 1,588,000 in August, 1,310,000 at the middle of 1946, and 990,000 at the middle of 1939. The Ministry said the inference was that there would be sufficient workers to achieve the Government’s target of a 40 per cent, increase in exports for early 1948.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26617, 13 November 1947, Page 7
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