EMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN
SURVEY OF THE EXISTING POSITION. (Recd This Day, 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, May 17. Votes for the Ministry of Labour and the Unemployment Assistance Board were discussed in Committee of Supply in the House of Commons. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour, reviewing the unemployment situation, stated that no less than 2,250,000 persons had been provided with work through Labour Exchanges last year. Mr Lennox Boyd added: “It is unhappily true that'on April 4 the number of registered unemployed was as high as 1,748,000, but of those, 358,000 were temporarily laid off and it was reasonable to assume that a large proportion were expecting an early resumption of worK.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 May 1938, Page 8
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113EMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 May 1938, Page 8
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