Trade generally is better and there even isa possibility of meeting the demand, at all events in part, Jof the engineers who are asking for increased wages. On May 9 the total number of persons on the registers of employment exchanges in Great Britain was 998,200, or 23,428 _less than a week before, Jand 577,599 less than a year before, when the figures were affected by the general strike and the coal dispute, There is no complaint of much cular trade, and
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