International Marxist Group Archive

Magazines, bulletins and booklets of the IMG and its forerunners, 1961–1984

113,000 Unemployed Get Nothing

The Week Vol. 1, No. 6, 5 February 1964 · p. 6 of the scan · 122 words

The scan: The Week v1 no6.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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Figures in the January issue of the ilinist of Labour Gazette reveal that 113,000 of the 474,000 registered unemployed on the llth of Novembor last year received no payment. A further 207,000 received unemployment pay only, whilst 108,000 recoived national assistance but no unemployment pay. Of tho 113,000 receiving nothing 55,000 were men, 14,000 single women, 25,000 married women, and 18,000 boys and girls under 18, The last catogories suffored most, nearly 44% of married women registered recoiving nothing, and more than 56% of boys and girls under 18 likewise, These figuros .strengéhon the opinion that a large proport= ion of these two catogories unemployed do not register as unemployed because they see no point in it if they get no money.

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