UNEMPLOYED AT ETON.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 158, 28 March 1908, Page 10

UNEMPLOYED AT ETON.

. Fifteeh-f-all that are loft. of. tho original sixty unemployed who", started from Manchester—arrived at Eton College on February .8,: when.their loaders, Mr. .Stewart .Gray and Mr. J. M'Cutcheon, delivered addresses to ''.tho.,'students' >|u .tho school-yard. 'Canon Lyttelton, tlio: headmaster, told the boys that Mr...Gray and.his companion's bad come from (tho very heart of the problem, and that it was -vory seldom they'got such a chance 'of learning; froth the lips of the unemployed what, was tho great -burden pressing upon them. ■ ' . ■ ■ V-. , M. l '-' toy said that ho . wiis speaking oil be.P.* millions of men who wcro wondor-. ing where the' day's- dinner -was coming from. Tho eild of tho world was at hand (shouts of "Rot"): The world in which their forefathors lived who had brought us to this state ■of civilisation was to' end." Tho unemployed question was. world Mvido. In Berlin and/Chicago' a beginning was being read a towards civil war: We were not far off'war : in England (jeors)'. Tho stonvhosrted stupidity of this, country was going 'to'bring about ay• revolution,■' (jeors). .'He. .discriminated entirely between the aristocracy and tho plutocracy, because ho knew botli from the inside. Ho knew, that tho heart of the- aristocracy was 'truo : (much! cheering). He knew, too, that tho heart of England was -true.. ; -■ - t -'Mr; M'Cuteheon referred to tho land-grab-bing the ' unemployed had done in Manchester. He said that tliey wero' goiiig : to the King's idlo land presontly, and, if 'they wero allowed to, would till it and'bring 1 prosperity to thomsolves. ... The boys' were' then smartly'dismissed to thoir scholastic duties by the headmaster, but beforo this tho Manchester men- had sent round their collection boxes, into which liberal offerings had been, dropped. " ,/l V