Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. – in the House of Commons at on 27 March 1929.
Mr William Kelly
, Rochdale
asked the Minister of Labour the numbers of men and women registered as unemployed from the textile trade, cotton and woollen, in February and March of this year?
Sir Henry Betterton
, Rushcliffe
As the reply includes a number of figures, I will, with the hon. Member's permission, circulate a statement in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
Following is the statement:
| NSURED PERSONS classified as belonging to the COTTON and WOOLLEN and WORSTED TEXTILE INDUSTRIES recorded as Unemployed in Great Britain at 25th February, 1929. | |||||||||
| Industry. | Men. | Women. | Juveniles. | ||||||
| Wholly unemployed. | Temporarily stopped. | Total. | Wholly unemployed. | Temporarily stopped. | Total. | Wholly unemployed. | Temporarily stopped. | Total. | |
| Cotton | 10,396 | 12,798 | 23,194 | 16,144 | 23,816 | 39,960 | 531 | 2,316 | 2,847 |
| Woollen and Worsted. | 5,768 | 7,294 | 13,062 | 5,552 | 11,885 | 17,437 | 355 | 752 | 1,107 |
| Statistics of unemployment in the various industries in respect of March are not yet available. |
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