Colliery Wage-Earners

HC Deb 25 July 1944 vol 402 c601W

Mr. R. Morgan

asked the Minister of Fuel and Power the average yearly number of wage-earners on the colliery books for 1924 to 1937, inclusive, on the same basis as those given for 1938 to 1943 in Table (1) of the Statistical Digest issued by his Department.

1937. Major Lloyd George

The information is as follows:

Average Number of Wage-Earners on Colliery Books at Coal Mines in Great Britain,to

Year
1924	…	…	…	1,172,200
1925	…	…	…	1,086,300
1926	…	…	…	national stoppage
1927	…	…	…	998,400
1928	…	…	…	922,200
1929	…	…	…	931,700
1930	…	…	…	917,300
1931	…	…	…	849,500
1932	…	…	…	802,500
1933	…	…	…	772,400
1934	…	…	…	774,300
1935	…	…	…	758,600
1936	…	…	…	756,000
1937	…	…	…	777,900

There is, of course, no information corresponding to the figures of numbers in effective employment shown in parenthesis in Table (1) of the Statistical Digest.