FALLING APACE
UNEMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN. NEARLY EVERY INDUSTRY BENEFITS (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. June 5. There was a further marked fall in the number of unemployed last month. The Ministry of Labour estimates that the number of insured persons in employment in Great Britain on ’ May 15 was approximately 12,667,000. This was 156,000 more than a month earlier, and, on a comparable basis, about 440,000 more than a year ago. At the same date the registered unemployed totalled 1,492,282,' comprising 1,234,001 wholly employed, 198.617 temporarily laid off, and 59,664 persons who are normally in casual employment. The total includes 1,108,943 men. 36,335 boys, 304,813 women, and 42,241 girls? This total was 152,112 less than a month earlier and 286,523 less than a year earlier. The improvement in employment which these figures reflect took place in nearly every industry, but it was most marked in the building and distributive trades and engineering.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1939, Page 5
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