7 APRIL 1933, Page 3

More Men at Work The fine weather probably had something

to do with the improved March figures for employment. For the building trade, which depends more than other industries on the weather, accounted for 52,000 out of the decrease of 80,000 on the unemployed register. On the other hand, there were 26;000 more workless miners than in February. The figures remind us how large a number of men might find work if building schemes of all kinds could be put in hand instead of being held up in the name of economy. Most local authorities have postponed schemes for new schools, offices and hospitals which are needed and had been authorized, to say nothing of the overdue sluni crusade. Several hundred thousand men- could at once find work if all these projects were revived. _