BRITISH LABOUR INCREASES
LONDON, Jan. 17. Although there are now over 1UD,0U>. jmore workers in British industry than I in 1939 and 800,000 less engaged in j niaking equipment for the Porces, a j serious laclc of balan.ee in some indus i tries is revealed in the figures just Ireleased by the Ministry of Uabour. Although in mid-November there [were 093,000 more workers in tlumetal and ehemical indus tries than : before the war, during the saiue perio I i the number engaged in the nianufactur. of textiles, clothing, footwear and leather goods fell b,y 55-1, 000. The in • ereased number of workers was entirelv accounted for by a larger number of women in industry. There are still 152900 fewer men working in Britain than in 1939. Since the iniddle of 1945 the labotir force working for the Home markei has doubled and the number working for export has increased by three and a-half times.
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 January 1947, Page 2
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