MORE UNEMPLOYED
BRITAIN’S FIGURES RISE RAPIDLY SEASONAL DEPRESSION British Official Wireless RUGBY, Tuesday. The number of unemployed persons in Britain on December 30 was 1,510,200. This was 206,643 more than on December 16. A similar increase was shown last year, when the total on December 31 was 249,578 more than that for December 17. It is pointed out that owing to the dismissal of workers engaged for Christmas trade, and because of the extended short-time working, there i 3 usually a large increase of unemployment immediately after Christmas. The total number of unemployed at the end of 1929 was 10,530 less than at the end of 1928.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 866, 9 January 1930, Page 9
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107MORE UNEMPLOYED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 866, 9 January 1930, Page 9
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