BRITISH UNEMPLOYED.
NON-PAUPER RELIEF. MR BURNS'S POLICY. United Preßs A«oehition—By Electrio l-e!ej,-rapn—Copyright. LONDON, October 15 Mr John Burns, speaking at Tynemouth, said that legislation relating to the unemployment problem would be passed this session, and by next March more would havo been spent in distress areas in non-pauper relief, than during tho whole period of tho Lancashire cotton famine. Mr Burns, speaking at, Newcastle, declared that ho refused to bo a party to panic legislation in regard to unemployment. War against poverty was not a skirmish, but a long dogged campaign, lasting perhaps a century.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13249, 17 October 1908, Page 9
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