As jobless total hits 1.9m | IMGpapers 1980

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This month's announcement of 1.9 million on the dole brings the jobless total to something approaching the catastrophe of the 'thirties. And even this doesn't include the thousands of women not registered for work and the thousands more on part-time working in textiles etc.

Thatcher claims, or course, that the figures are due to the influx of school-leavers onto the job market. But the thousands who left school this summer merely join the steady trickle being made redundant every day in all parts of the country. * In the West Midlands, 30,000 jobs have disappeared since January alone; * In South Wales, 6,000 pitworkers in steel; * In the North West, 290,000 jobACCIDENT?

wasted on nuclear missiles, whole areas of the country - from South jobs are to go besides the 11,000 less are chasing 14,000 vacancies.

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