INCREASE NOTED
UNEMPLOYED IN BRITAIN I British Olticial Wireless I RUGBY, Feb. 7. The Ministry o£ Labour estimates that on January 16 the number of insured persons in employment in Britain was approximately 12,079,000. This is 184,000 less than a month before and about 50,000 less than a year ago. At the same date the registered unemployed numbered 2,039,026, comprising 1,594,430 wholly unemployed, 379,027 temporarily laid off, and 75,568 normally in casual empolymont. The total is 207.654 more than a month before and 211,419 more than a year before. Of the increase of 207,654, more than 39,000 are accounted for by the first registration of boys and girls leaving school at the end ci the December term, while 84,319 other persons are temporarily laid off. Part of the decline in employment is due to the severe weather, which restricted outdoor employment at the date of the January count. HIGHEST FOR THREE YEARS (Independent Cable Service). LONDON, Feb. 7. For the first time in three years the unemployed exceeded two millions.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 34, 10 February 1939, Page 9
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170INCREASE NOTED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 34, 10 February 1939, Page 9
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