Realities and problems

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Identifikator:: 1830556908

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221283

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Realities and problems

Place of publication:: Westminster

Publisher:: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 67 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: The engineering industry

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to the competition of Polish Silesian mines, but that competition is assisted not only by low wages but also by the low freights charged by the Polish railways for export coal. There is no doubt that the basis of freights on continental railways is more favourable 10 users than in this country. The accompanying table shows how unemployment has risen and 1s rising in land transport :— NUMBERS AND PERCENTAGES UNEMPLOYED. TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION INDUSTRIES. (Ministry of Labour Statistics). Monthly Average. 1927 ... i. . 1928 ... ‘es ve 1929 ... I~ 1930 :— January ... February ... March April May wa June en July ee I” August... ee es September ... vee es October |... Total Unemployed. 100,805 110,621 114.107 129,913 133,718 142,040 141,725 142,450 133,543 139,043 145,123 149,558 186 105 Percentage. 13-1 14-1 14-1 16:1 16-6 17-6 17-6 17-7 16-3 16-9 17-7 18-2 20-92 Shipping and Shipbuilding. The relation between transport by sea and the British exporting industries cannot be too strongly emphasised. Itishardly necessary to elaborate the fact that if shipping companies cannot obtain profitable employment for their ships, and much merchant shipping is laid up idle, the companies have not the incentive or the money to build new ships. And the Shipping Industry is more directly and acutely affected by foreign competition than almost any other. If its costs

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