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19th July 1980, Page 6
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Keywords : Unemployment, Labor

THE 65,354 registered a: unemployed in May who las. worked in transport an communication was thi highest total over the last ter years, nearly twice the low, est figure of 33,820 in 1974.

Jim Lester, Parliamentar) Under-Secretary for Employ ment, who gave these figures ir the Commons, added that as percentage of the 1,537,90E employees, working and non working, in transport and corn munication, the number of un employed this year representec 4 2.

As a percentage of all unem ployed, excluding schoo leavers, the figure was 4.5, as r has been since 1978, the lowes figure since 1970.

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