§ 4. Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLANDasked the Minister of Labour if she will state the figure of unemployment in Germany for each month since June, 1929; and whether she can state how many at each date were engaged in agricultural or other work which in this country is not in an industry insured against un-employment?
§ Miss BONDFIELDAs the reply contains a large number of figures I propose, with the right hon. Member's permission, to circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Sir A. STEEL-MAITLANDWill the right hon. Lady consider giving similar information approximately with regard to the United States?
§ Miss BONDFIELDI shall be glad to consider that suggestion.
§ Following is the reply:
§ The numbers of persons registered as available for and seeking work at the public Employment Exchanges in Germany, at the end of each month since June, 1929, are given in the table below. It is not possible to separate completely from the German unemployment statistics the classes of persons who in this country are not insured against unemployment; persons classified, however, as workers in (a) agriculture, horticulture, 1447 forestry and fishing, and (b) private domestic service are separately shown in the statistics, and the numbers of these registered at each date are given in separate columns of the table below. In
Date (end of the month). | Number of persons registered at the German Public Employment Exchanges as available for and seeking work. | ||||||
Total. | Belonging to agriculture, horticulture, forestry and fishing.* | Belonging to private domestic service. | |||||
1929. | |||||||
June | … | … | … | … | 1,382,999 | 22,991 | 45,852 |
July | … | … | … | … | 1,355,027 | 22,414 | 44,935 |
August | … | … | … | 1,359,677 | 22,623 | 45,402 | |
September | … | … | … | 1,403,251 | 24,858 | 48,691 | |
October | … | … | … | 1,627,439 | 32,754 | 58,172 | |
November | … | … | … | 2,100,910 | 80,875 | 65,248 | |
December | … | … | … | 2,894,798 | 146,739 | 63,802 | |
1930. | |||||||
January | … | … | … | 3,258,957 | 172,242 | 73,108 | |
February | … | … | … | 3,407,696 | 181,958 | 74,426 | |
March | … | … | … | 3,091,445 | 140,581 | 72,614 |