BRITISH UNEMPLOYED
THE IRREDUCIBLE MINIMUM (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Sept. 14. (Received Sept. 15, at 5.5 p.m.) 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 high 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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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22987, 16 September 1936, Page 7
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126BRITISH UNEMPLOYED Otago Daily Times, Issue 22987, 16 September 1936, Page 7
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