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Unemployment (Great Britain and United States).

Oral Answers to Questions — Coal Industry. – in the House of Commons am ar 7 Gorffennaf 1925.

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Photo of Mr David Grenfell Mr David Grenfell , Gŵyr

35.

asked the Secretary for Mines if he will give the figures showing the comparative extent of un employment in the coal industries in Great Britain and the United States at the end of 1924?

Photo of Sir Henry Betterton Sir Henry Betterton , Rushcliffe

I have been asked to reply. The percentage of workpeople unemployed in coal mining on 22nd December, 1924, in Great Britain was 79. No statistics of unemployment are published by the United States Government and I regret therefore that I am unable to supply comparative figures for that country.