WORKLESS LONDON CLERKS.
This year has certainly earned for itself, says the " Daily Mail," the title of " Black 1903" on the Stock Exchange.' One of the most eloquent signs of the unprecedented depression may be seen during a casual visit to almost any stockbroker's office after the luncheon hour- Half the desks will be found empty, tlie clerks, having been granted a holiday simply thronglock of work to keep them busy., Mr Peer, the _ecretary of the Polytechnic Labour Bureau, pointed out that this depression wa* by no means confined to the Stock Exchange. This year was worse, though not markedly so, than last year. The clerk of 40 might just as well be dead for all his dunces of employment, while younger men were experiencing the greatest difficulty in obtaining situations. "Men of fifty," he concluded, "have applied to mc thi- year asking for situations as office boys, and I obtained employment for one of these at a pound a week."
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11748, 24 November 1903, Page 7
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162WORKLESS LONDON CLERKS. Press, Volume LX, Issue 11748, 24 November 1903, Page 7
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