The Times of Monday published a letter from Sir Leo
Chiozza Money, in which, he threw much light on the figures of unemployment. Last week we mentioned the strange discrepancies between figures quoted inthe -various political manifestoes. The Labour manifesto-claimed-that unemployment had been reduced, while both the Unionist and Liberal manifestoes stated that it had considerably increase& though even so the Unionist a-nd Liberal figures did not agree. Sir Leo Chiozza Money points out that the Labour statement _rests ,upon comparisons -between sets of figures which are not really comparable. It was not permisgible, for instance, to take the -peak .figure of January 28th, as that was swollen by nearly 70,000 owing to the railway strike. According to the strictly compar- able figures-which are authorized by the Ministry of Labour there were 26,902 more unemployed persons on October 6th than there were on February 11th. It must be added, however, that in the week ending October 18th there was a welcome drop of 5,375. Was this due to special labour required in the Election campaign ?
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