BRITAIN'S UNEMPLOYED.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 215, 9 September 1921, Page 5

BRITAIN'S UNEMPLOYED.

RIOTS IN DUNDEE. SHOREDITCH NO-RENT STRIKE LONDON, September 8. Kiots of unemployed in Dundee were renewed last night. Several thousand marched through the streets, and the windows of some shops were broken and the contents looted. The police had to make ba,ton charges. A number of people were injured. The Lord Provost, when motoring homewards, was Btoned, and his daughter, inside the car, was injured. Shoreditch unemployed have resolved on a no-rent strike until unemployment is made a national charge and full maintenance of those unemployed is in practice. In order to enforce the strike the borough is divided into 16 parts, and each is placed under a marshal, who will arrange pickets to patrol the streets and give assistance in case of any attempt to evict a striker. Five thousand unemployed miners in the Abertillery district of South Wales inarched ten miles to interview the Bcdwellty Guardians. They demanded 25/ a week for a mnn and wife, and 12/ for each child in addition to rent, rates, and half a ton of coal a month. The jruardians, after providing bread and cheese for the marchers, offered 10/ a ■week each for breadwinners, and 11/ to each bachelor, which was accepted under protest.

Three thousand demonstrators at Huddersfi-Md £1 a «wV for eti'-h adv.lt and 7/6 for each child, in addition to 14/ for rent and free coal. The miardinns rpfiised. and offered fond rononns and menig tl»e Solvation Army barracks.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) CABINET DISCUSSION. TRADES UNION DEMANDS. LONDON, September 8. The Cabinet at its meeting in Inverness discussed the question of unemployment, and appointed a committee to deal with the subject, consisting of Sir Robert Home, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Dr. T. J. Macnamara, Minister of Labour, Sir Alfred Mond, Minister of Health, and Mr. Kobert Munro, Secretary of Scotland.

ference on unemployment in Warrington, said that the unemployment storm ■was now muttering. It would thunder within six weeks.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) The Trades Union Consrress at Cardiff adopted a resolution affirming the principle that it is the duty of the State to provide ■work or adequate maintenance for every willing worker, and approving the action of guardians, who, in the absence of Government assistance, have endeavoured to provide "adequate relief, but expressing the opinion that such burden should not be placed on ratepayers. The resolution also demanded the immediate summoning of Parliament with a view to introducing practical schemes of work to relieve unemployment with neeessarv financial provision. The discussion chiefly concentrated on the arrest of the Pnnlar guardians anil their treatment, which were strongly condemned. Mr. J. R. OlvT>ps stron"lv dprv-ecu f'l a nror.isal for direct action. He snid that labour mn«t or"nni=e rlfimoTKttrations ar>d make demnnd , ? wMrTi tl" 1 n-e----sent cillmiß and nn««mmith« , l,te Pnr'iament could not rni=fnkr>. Pnr'mtnPnt mnet, he Bummoncd In Hpnl with imemn'nvment Ti-i«h onestion or no Irish question.— ("Times.")

Sir Peter Ryland, speaking at a conference on unemployment in Warrington, said that the unemployment storm was now muttering. It would thunder within six weeks.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)

The Trades Union Consrress at Cardiff adopted a resolution affirming the principle that it is the duty of the State to provide work or adequate maintenance for every willing worker, and approving the action of guardians, who, in the