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MORE UNEMPLOYMENT
SLGHT SEASONAL RISE.
First Increase Since Depression.
CANDBBRA, July 22.-Unemployment
in Austilla among members of trade
unlons has .shown a slight increase for
the ftit time since the middle of 1922,
when recorded umemployment teached its
deprelon :peak of 30 per cent. With
empymenmt among trade unnionists e
du?ed to pm?al levels this increase. is
merely seonal: l~omerly, when em
ployIqet wrapiu izmprovingafter the
depeon this ssealoa effect was
masked to snhd n exrtent by the c?ek
nan t sopt of labmour that it was
met l _ft iab'ed tir unions Alib* that
in the inddleSofr May inemploymeiit
among ine?bers amounted to 8?0 per cen.
compared With 8 per cent In the previous
quarter. The Commonwealth Statistician
(1 Roland Wilson). commenting on
hese ?gures, saes that the slight rise
was maly due;.o increased zndiplaoy
ment in the tbei i .and food and drink
ndat?nspir. -alo-gh the w siority of in
dustrial Browp g stedmall increases.
nthe JTune iuar of last yearb em
ployment was.l per.' cent. rnismata
and New South Wales showed thei3arwet
perren s of ztumemp l neat 8ur.ngtie
of iminnissunmppe d in, each State
was as6liow8-'few "grth Wales, 9. per
cent:; Vttorla, 85 per cent;. 'Queemsisan
12 per cent; Sounth Australia;: 7' rer
cent;. Westaer Aintrall;. P.Sper .ent;
9ad 'man iaa, i.OA per ce".
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