UNEMPLOYED MEN IN BRITAIN
* INDUSTRIES ABSORB BIG PROPORTION ENCOURAGING FIGURES (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) (Received March 6, 7.30 p.m.) RUGBY, March 5. Speaking in the House of Commons in the debate on unemployment, the Minister for Labour (Mr Oliver Stanley) said that last December more persons were employed in British industry than ever before. In 1934 chronic unemployment affected no more than 400,000 persons. Of the total insured population of 12,750,000, 60 per cent., or 7,750,000, had- been continuously employed, and the average employment of the rest had been 32 weeks in the year. All but 400,000 had hope of work in their own industry and locality, and could best be helped by restoring greater prosperity to industry. The material for great and special schemes were the 400.000 chronically unemployed, and not the whole 2,000,000 on the register. Mr Stanley said that shorter hours was an international problem, and any international convention must provide that all signatories meant shorter hours without lower wages.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21416, 7 March 1935, Page 13
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