BRITISH UNEMPLOYED
TOTAL ABOUT A MILLION LONDON, Dec. 20. Addressing the Royal Statistical Society, Mr. John Ainsworth Dale (Assistant Secretary of Labour), pointed out that there was a popular misunderstanding by which it was supposed that 2,250,000 people were permanently out of work, and that this was a surplus to the needs of industry. The number of persons unemployed in the course of the year was really nearly 6,000,000, of whom the 4 4 hard core” of persons who were unemployed for eight or nine months out of last year numbered at most 1,000,000, the remaining 5,000,000 being less unfortunate and a certain proportion suffering little. Among th e 1,000,000 were a preponderance of older and unskilled men, and many who through prolonged unemployment were rendered unfit for work without considerable help. The facts left little doubt that if a large scheme of public works was under taken as a remedial measure only a small number of unemployed could and would work on it.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 302, 22 December 1933, Page 7
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