News of the Week Unemployment ' Avtt E e K fi b y Wiesehko
show nae ips el ooym1e4086i6n ear e a svees t. hoTshe i so wk the week before. It is true that there are.nearly 100,000 more persons in employment. than there were a year ago, but the disheartening fact to be .noted is that such average improvement in trade as may be fairly hoped for over a period of years will do little to diminish the solid bulk of unemployment which has been a phenomenon since the War. We are not basing any unnecessarily gloomy opinion upon mere seasonal fluctuations. At this time of:_year unemployment normally increases. The extremely formidable post-War fact is something entirely newa body of unemployment of which by far the greater part is intractable. Spurts of production in various trades hardly affectit. -- The more Mr. Thomas inquires into this national tragedy, the more he appears to he (*winced that there is nothing to do but to bring about an all-round improvement in trade which will
