News of the Week
Unemployment THE unemployment figures published on Wednesday were bad again, and we fear that they will become considerably worse before they are better. There were 17,442 more unemployed than in the previous week, but 47,906 fewer than a year ago. On Tuesday a White Paper was issued describing the works approved under the Development Act and the Colonial Development Act of this year. If Mr. Thomas were in any danger— though he obviously is not—of thinking that artificially invented work which is not economically water-tight helps towards permanently reducing unemployment he would surely be convinced to the contrary by his own White Paper. The schemes mentioned involve an expen- diture of roughly 146,000,000. In return for this it is estimated that 189,800 men will obtain work for a Year.
