Hardcore Ww Tiploygment Still J -gabasing

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‘tn an almost pathetic atten % uO veverse the trend against them tho’ Tories are trying to present the decrease iu che mmbder of unemployed persons as a triumph for their policies, Even the popular capitalist press has hed to point out th ‘contrary. On the other hand,.the serious bourgeois pres* is alarmed: ~ the Einannse) Tages bealsnet "90-00 underlying trend is: still upward." Tho Guardian said: "there is little real comfort in these figures,” ‘ end remarked that unless the May figures revecled a reversal of trend far mere vigorous measures wuld have to be taken, Sorting out the figures is extrerely difficult, but the mimber of wholly unemployed has dropped by 19,000, whica is the normal seasonal averag 9 tut. if the weather has beosn the factor it has been made made out to be, the figure mist be considerably reduced to conform with this explanations —