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In the district itself the largest employers of Labour
continued to be Atcraft Works; General Electric Co.,
Universal Furniture Products, Ltd.; Wrigley Products, Ltd.;
Wembley Stadium and Empire Sports Arena; and the Glacier
Metal Co. The various railway companies are also large
employers.
There are no local industries which appear to have a
deleterious effect on those engaged therein.
The Town Planning of Estates which have been
developed in the last few years, with its consequent restriction
of the number of houses per acre, cannot fail to have a
beneficial effect, not only upon our present population, but
upon future generations.
UNEMPLOYMENT,
Wembley has not been so seriously affected by unemployment
as many towns of its size, owing to the fact that its
industries are varied in character, and that a large number
of its inhabitants are in some form of business in London,
and are not manual workers.
Several separate agencies have greatly assisted in
relieving the condition due to unemployment : among them
may be mentioned the Guild of Social Service, the Public
Assistance Committee, the Rotarians, and also the Maternity
and Child Welfare Committee of the Council, in quite a
generous distribution of milk to those families with very
reduced incomes.