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UNEMPLOYMENT IN ENGLAND 289 



PERCENTAGE OF UNEMPLOYED IN PRINCIPAL 

 TRADE UNIONS* 



may, with the caution given above, be accepted as 

 indicative of the state of employment in England in 



the last generation. 



* The fact that unemployment in the engineering, 



• Board of Trade Report (Code 2,337), ' British and Foreign Trade 

 and Industry,' 1904. 



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