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THE UNEMPLOYMENT SITUATION.

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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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