BRITISH LABOUR
UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES
(Rec. 9 a.m.)
RUGBY, May 21
The number of men and boys registered at employment exchanges in Great Britain as wholly unemployed at April 21 was 157,239 —a decrease of 15,421 compared with March 17 and of 402,859 compared with April 15, 1940. Of the total 36,915 have been classified by interviewing panels as unsuitable for ordinary industrial employment.
The corresponding figures for women and girls at April 21 were 161,533 wholly unemployed, of whom 3797 have been classified by interviewing panels as unsuitable for normal full-time employment. Compared with March 17 the number of wholly unemployed showed a decrease of 30,115, and compared with April 15, 1940, a decrease of 18,396.—8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 120, 23 May 1941, Page 8
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117BRITISH LABOUR Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 120, 23 May 1941, Page 8
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