London, Aug. 12.
Total registered unemployment in Great Britain on July 14 was: men and boys 113.662, women and girls 105,915, and of these 33,000 men and 3,000 women were classified ax unsuitable for ordinary industrial employment.
These figures show a decrease of more than 24000 unemployed as compared with the month of June. In fact, the labour market has now become so "tight" that even men approaching the age of 80 are finding demand for their services. So urgent are the demands for labour in the London area that an increase in the available labour "pool" has had to be made by transferring labour from one industry to another through the medium of industrial registration. As younger women are absorbed into war industries, older ones are taking their places in less vital jobs.—Reuter.
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