BRITISH INDUSTRIES
CHANGES IN LOCATION INCREASED EMPLOYMENT
(British Official Wireless..
Rec. 10 a.m. RUGBY, Nov. 20. A process of social evolution, with a change in the nature and location of national industries, is disclosed in a Ministry of Labor gazette. For the purposes of analysis 100 industries have been treated separately, and of these fi6 record increases during the last five years, and 34 show decreases. Workers in the silk and artificial silk industry have increased by 93.6 per cent., and the expansion last year almost equalled that of the four preceding years together. The statistics confirm in a striking manner the southern trend of industry. The London area has,increased its number of insured workers in five years by 10.2 per cent. London and the south-eastern counties, taken together, now represent 27.5 per cent, of the insured population, as compared with 24.2 per cent, in 1923.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16808, 22 November 1928, Page 7
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