THE UNEMPLOYED
BRITISH FIGURES DISCLOSURE
(United Press Association—By Electric
Telegraph—Copyright.)
LONDON - , December 20.
Addressing the Royal Statistical Society, Mr John Ainsworth Dale, pointed out that there was a popular misunderstanding whereby it was supposed 2| million are permanently out of work, and that this was a surplus to the needs of industry. The number of - persons unemployed in the course of the year was really nearly six million, of whom the “hard core - ’ of persons, who wor 6 unemployed for eight or nine months out of last year, numbered at most one million, the remaining five million being less unfortunate, and a certain proportion suffering little.
Among the million were a preponderance of the older unskilled men and many of whom through prolonged unemployment were rendered unfit for work without considerable help. The scheme of public works was undertaken as remedial measure ) only a small number of the unemployed could an# would work on. it.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1933, Page 1
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