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THE UNEMPLOYMENT SITUATION.
(Previous
Reference: Cabinet 39 (28), Con- clusion 2.)
1. The Cabinet had before them the following
documents in connection with the Unemployment
Situation:
A Note by the Secretary of the Cabinet (Paper C.F.-245 (28)) covering the following documents that had been submitted to the Unemployment Policy Committee for their Meeting the same morning at 11-30 a.mi .:
Draft Report of Committee (Paper U.P.(28) 7).
Report of Migration Sub-Committee (Paper U.P.(28) 7, Appendix I).
Memorandum by the President of the Board of Trade on Conc entra- tion and Anticipation (Paper U.P.(28) 9).
Memorandum by the Minister of Trans port on Concentration and Anticipation (Paper U.P. (28) 11.)
Memorandum by the President of the Board of Education on Health of School Children in the distressed Areas (Paper U.P.(28) 8).
Note on Grants for Work in Relief of Unemployment, circulated by direction of the Secretary of State for War (Paper U.P.(28) 10).
A Memorandum by the Secretary of State for War on Concentration of Output in the Steel Trade (Paper C.F.-239 (28)).
A Memorandum by the Minister of Labour on Iron and Steel (Paper C.P.-255 (28)).
The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave the
Cabinet an account of the work of the Unemployment
Policy Comittee, which, he explained, had not been
completed in time for the circulation of an agreed
Report. In the course of this statement Mr Churchill
mentioned that since the Meeting of the Committee
the same morning he had made enquiries and had
ascertained from a most competent quarter (which he
mentioned to the Cabinet) that the negotiations
between the railwaymen and the Managers for reducing
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