THE ENGINEERING INDUSTRY. 
At this stage it is proposed to confine attention to the 
Engineering Industry and at a later stage to deal with the 
influence of other industries on the Engineering Industry, and of the 
Engineering Industry on other industries. 
UNEMPLOYMENT. 
The most readily recognised factor as indicating the state of 
prosperity or depression is the unemployment in Industry, and for 
that purpose it is proposed to examine in some detail the position 
of unemployment in the Engineering Industry. The following table, 
based on information published monthly by the Ministry of Labour, 
shows for the main branches of the Engineering Industry the very 
pronounced decline in the numbers employed :—