LONDON TO-DAY

Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1932, Page 3

LONDON TO-DAY

fiYORLD’S BUSIEST CITY.-fe ''■] UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES 'LOW; : 1 LONDON, October - 22. London, wuth ltfe-population’of'riiofe than'- d;L\L,CXX), is-' propably the busiest" and . most pi c-speroas: prbrit 'city: in- the .whojb world. That ..net was ■ ona-. phas.sed by tlfe ,publica%ion of the official Mimstry of Labour figures 'dl uiiOmiploymeuii; foiV the mout-li'i :of .iUgiist.- -i •- -'•■ ''; ' :i ' .A; ‘-,1 Here is far? less unemployment in London , tliiui in any other iridueta-iaL area ot G-. eat' Britain, spates tll-e EX--pre AVHat ifehune, th-e/posttibn fin: London to-day is by all'- Stautliuxls ter than in,any otlivi'"coniparabW area • in the woiid. Oueiii'pioymeu!; vju L-bh--don du-ivug’the moutih or- AugtAtdeclined bv, 3737—the only Engl-sh riU; ihinisiraxive district; of thft Ministry of . Labour iri Svlnoh there wls a ieiiiit-tlC-n." J '. *

This porcqntag© of unemployed in the county 't-f'- Loudon in 1.0. v 10.7, compared with Glasgow 30.9; Birininghain 1(5.2, Newcasyie 2(3.(5, MaUcliestei 16.2,1" Leeds ‘22.9, Bristol £o.o' Liverpool'23.9j Sheffield 35.5, Cardiff' 291 L ; Glily two- out of fee t'vverty-eigfit mtihic-ipal- borough* of' Lorixdon siimVed a fractional in iiueniployfriefit during August against^.-. J uly- All : tlle ether • twenty-six;'’ .muuriipal... boroughs' uepoifecl uxiempioy'riient decreases; lima.f,''but -satnfactoi'y. .;'Trii : -" %eeri. -'of them’, were- in ,a betteivjppsir tiqn tlianvin of :• last'year. - y- ,are the -reasons which have placed London - in ' so :■ much • .better ay position than.the rest' of the country^?. ‘‘A number of faotor,s conti said an expert of the Lcmlkm ; Oliaffi--ler of, Commerce in' ansevering that ; 6u rition. It must be reHiemb'ered fimt "cf‘ al i : " th at 1 ' 1 rimdoi i I!s"f)y';VfSi'“;;feogreatest mauuf:icturiiig,_f(iid .distributive,' centre* of t-h3' wprldEvery undue,try -is repr-evented Jn Lon f °"'. -“During recent years thet^kas' teem an incm aed .migration,.of lilu frej t the north and -the-' midlands to London arid the south. Many hf.the mantf.ictuTin,g industries •vhieh have .movrid. arid, opened 11b'. i . London are fclfesp which have been mast ; affected by tire times of depression...- Ttioiriands ,oif- : lactoric-s.lmve sprung into being- an and nrourid. London. They are all modern, arid equipped for. •' economic production, on a low c'ps'ts basis. They aye :tho factories able, to fight- and defeat bad timer,. They have not suffered to the .same extent as competitor s. .elsewhere.” .