London, Nov. 10.
Unemployment in Great Britain on October 16, according to the Ministry of Labour, amounted to 1,430,638 persons, showing an increase of 99,710 people over the figure on September 12, but revealing a decrease of 350,589 persons compared with a year ago. Or this number, 1,221,655. persons were wholly unemployed, 146,451 temporarily laid off, and 62,532 normally n casual employment, Increases in unemployment occurred, among other occupations, in the building trade, public works, contracting business hotel and boarding house service, distributive trades, and the printing industry. A reduction was witnessed in the coal mining, textile, and clothing industries.
The country is still in a transition stage between peace conditions and full development of the war effort, but afler two months of war the position is considerably better than in the corresponding period of 1914.—Reuter.
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