EMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN
POSITION IMPROVED 103,000 MORE IN WORK (British Official Wireless.) Rcc. 10 a.m. RUGBY, April 5. During March there was an increase of 103,000 in the number of persons employed, and a decrease of 80,54-1 in the number of registered unemployed. A large proportion of the increased employment was in the building industry, where there were 52,000 fewer unemployed. There was also some improvement in other trades, but there was a decline in coalmining, cotton and hosiery industries, and dock and harbor services. Details of registered unemployed on March 20 were: 2,230,211 men, 08,232 boys, 423,083 women, and 54,638 girls.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18057, 6 April 1933, Page 7
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102EMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18057, 6 April 1933, Page 7
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