KINGDOM*, VACANCIES NOTIFIED, VACANCIES FILLED, Etc., 1910-1927.† * The figures for all years up to and including 1921 are in respect of the United Kingdom. From that date the figures refer to Great Britain and Northern Ireland. † The figures for 1910-25 in this table include Post Office Christmas Workers, but do not include casual workers such as dock labourers and coal porters. The figures for 1926 include casual workers but do not include persons, numbering 40,721, for whom temporary Post Office work at Christmas was obtained through Employment Exchanges. The figures for 1927 include casual workers, and Post Office Christmas workers. Eleven months only. § Figures not available. || For a period of four weeks at the end of 1925 the figures do not include registrations of persons Temporarily stopped." " ANNUAL PERCENTAGES UNEMPLOYED AMONG MEMBERS OF CERTAIN TRADE UNIONS, 1881-1926. [Based solely on Returns furnished direct to the Ministry of Labour by various Trade Unions which pay unemployed benefit. Persons on strike or locked out, sick or superannuated, are not counted as unemployed.] Yearly average of Percentages* Unemployed at the end of each month: Member- All Year. ing, Ship- Carpenters Wood Printing building and working and Book and Joiners. nishing. The percentages for some of the earlier years are partly computed from expenditure on unemployed benefit. Including a number of Unions not included in the four following columns. Affected by general Coal Mining stoppage. § The figures from 1921 onwards exclude pottery trade operatives. From July, 1924, onwards building trade operatives are also excluded from the general average. The figures for 1922 onwards are averages of the percentages unemployed at the end of each quarter. |