748,000 UNEMPLOYED.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15467, 11 March 1921, Page 4

748,000 UNEMPLOYED.

NOItEASR OF 86,000 REGISTERED SINCE CU-IRIS'I'MAS. •' • LG'NDQN, Jan. B.—Unemployment-is still increasing. At tlic eml of the year the nuinbci' of workpeople- registered. at Employment Exchanges was, in round figures, 748,000, made up as follows: Men, £05,000; women, 184,000; toys, 28,000: girls, 31,000. ; ' In the previous week the total was 662,000, but this number was'swollen by J people who. lost work by a prolonged ■ holiday at Christmas, when many works; closed* for'a longer period; than usual. ] It is "clear, therefore', that uiiemploy- j inent has increased by ; nearly 100,000 since L'hi'fctnias. j These! ligures only represent , work-] people who have actually' registered at ! I Employment Exchanges, and they are merely an' index of the prevailing, in- ■ tlustrial. depression. They do not include employees on short time or workers 'who do not use the Exchanges,: :j There is no dependable method of ar- ■ riving at the grand total of unemployed j in the country. ■ . • I

The appeal' of the London mayors for gifts of food and clothing for distribution to the-unemployed will be issued early next week. .It' is hoped that' the scheme will provide the means'of relieving distress among a. largo number, ct" families. • '•:."-.-'," 1 Holborn Town Hall will .boused as headquarters. There the gifts will bo received and ' allotted to the districts where the ■need is greatest; Appeals will be made/to.'Chambers-, of Commerce and manufactnrois'' for 'gifts in biill;.