UNEMPLOYMENT.
Substantial Improvement in America. United Press Assn. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received December 4, 12.55 p.m.) WASHINGTON, December 3. Apparently answering criticism of the Government’s public works programme, the Secretary, Mr Ickes, announced to-day that while there were some ten million unemployed on October 1, the number had now been reduced to 8,500,000 through the public works administration of re-employed. About 1,100,000 had been given emergency employment through the civil works administration, but at “ real wages,” while the remaining number were employed either on public works projects or* absorbed in industry. Mr Ickes generally* confirmed the American Federation of Labour estimates of a fortnight ago, agreeing that the N.R.A. had halted the industrial employment decline in the present slack months.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 935, 4 December 1933, Page 9
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