The Ministry of Labour reports that, for the week ending February 4, the number of unemployed on the "live" registers of the Employment Exchange was 1,108,000. The "live'" registers of the Labour Exchanges are those registering the names of unemployed who periodically renew their applications for work. As there is very little work to be had, an unemployed workmen who has drawn all his unemployment benefit rarely continues his attendance at the Exchange, which, in times of industrial depression, is little more than an agency for the payment of benefits. So it will be seen that the Ministry of Labour's figures relating to the unemployed only cover a portion of the total unemployment existing in the United Kingdom to-day.
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