Even on unemployment, Mr. Web!" is reassuring. The proportion of men without work is actually less than it was in 1841, and probably scout the rame as it was in 1886 no complete totals. employed were registered and counted. imes four per cent. were temporarily unemployed. What we ought to be concerned about was not the total of 1,300,00
Dat the excess over four per cent. say 700,000, which was bad enough These 700,000 were almost wholly: aveounted for by shi ing. 7 jeering,, and iron ard steel pro-Gaction (where wartime activities had left the whole world with pecduetive capacity and man-power in excess of present-day needs), and coal-mining, which he believed only temporarily onering: owing to fa Uslocation of the wor Far coal us for intustey zenoraly optimistic enough to believe early recovery. But for those engaged in tron and steel production in" shipbuilding, and in marine engineering there jin a decade, of their being all required in their. old trades in thi or any other assistance ought be them to find other
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