June 10.
The enormous extent of unemployment in Great Britain is reveal in the official figures for last week, which show that there were 3,750,- 000 out of work, including 1,600,000 miners and cotton operatives. but a small number of the balance have applied for out of work donations. The foregoing figures do not include short-time workers, numbering over a million.
The only industries which show signs of withstanding the black spell are shipbuilding and boot manufacturing, but several industries expect a quick upward turn when the miners resume work.
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