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Decrease of Unemployment in South Wales: Export Trade Better employment in South Wales is recorded. At the end of September there were just over 146,000 employed workers in South Wales.

December 31 the number reduced to 84,000, 'The decrease can be directly traced to the improvement in the coal trade in the latter part of Inst' year and 85 cent. of the the period question are miners.

The figures for the sea-ports of Cardiff, "Swansea, Newport and Barry, the. great. Welsh centres of the coal exporting trade, reflect the same improvement.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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