INCREASE IN BRITISH UNEMPLOYED
353,000 MORE THAN LAST YEAR
(British Official Wireless) RUGBY, December 6. The Ministry of Labour estimates that at November 15 insured persons in employment, exclusive of persons within the agricultural scheme, totalled approximately 11,573,000 —86,000 less than the month before but, on a comparative basis, 353,000 more than the year before. At the same time registered unemployed numbered 1,499,203 comprising 1,227,000 wholly unemployed, 216,806 temporarily laid off, and 54,797 normally in casual employment. The total was 108,954 more than the month before but, on a comparative basis, 698,600 less than the year before.
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Southland Times, Issue 23378, 9 December 1937, Page 5
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