HC Deb 15 May 1930 vol 238 c2065

Read the First time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.

Date. Finnieston. Glasgow Central.
Men. Women. Juveniles. Total. Men. Women. Juveniles. Total.
28th January, 1929 2,220 346 177 2,743 4,657 1,147 523 6,327
27th January, 1930 2,684 472 229 3,385 4,898 1,283 465 6,646
29th April, 1929 2,187 307 128 2,622 4,249 957 400 5,606
28th April, 1930 2,917 605 145 3,667 5,805 1,660 328 7,793

The industries in which the largest numbers of insured persons were recorded as unemployed at each date at the Finnieston Employment Exchange were—among men: shipping service; dock, harbour, canal, etc., service; shipbuilding and ship-repairing; marine engineering, and the distributive trades; and among women: the distributive trades and hotel and boarding house service. At the Glasgow Central Exchange the industries in which the greatest numbers of insured persons were recorded as unemployed at each date were: among men: the distributive trades, the building industry, general engineering, road transport, shipbuilding and ship-repairing, and public works contracting; and, among women: the distributive trades, hotel and boarding house service, and printing and bookbinding.

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