UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM
POSITION IN BRITAIN THE IRREDUCIBLE MINIMUM. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 14. Speaking at the economics section of the British Association meeting at Blackpool, Sir William Beveridge said that what used to be spoken of in Britain as the irreducible minimum of_ 2 per cent, of unemployment, due to friction and seasonable causes, as recorded by trade unions in the boom years before the war, must clearly now be put much higher. Not as higu, perhaps, as 8 per cent., but probably between 6 and 8 per cent., or in round figures between 800,000 and 1,000,000 _ unemployed. Whether this was a real increase in unemployment or only the result of complete records not hitherto available could not be stated with certainty.
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Evening Star, Issue 22445, 16 September 1936, Page 9
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123UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM Evening Star, Issue 22445, 16 September 1936, Page 9
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