THE WORKLESS.
SCENE OF VIOLENCE IN MANCHESTER. POLICE USE BATONS. MUNICIPAL BORROWING" FOR RELIEF '• WORKS. (BT TELEanArn—rciss ASSOCIATION—COrYEICIIT.) (Rec. September 27, 4.15 p.m.) London, September 26. Tho Manchester police, using their batons, dispersed a crowd of 2000 unemployed, who wore threatening to raid the Town Hall. The President of tho Board of Trade, Mr. John Burns, has authorised tho municipality of Manchester to., borrow £50,000 for relief works.' . UNEMPLOYED FICURES. NUMBER MORE.THAN DOUBLED IN .. .. .BRITAIN. London, September 25. , The Under-Secretary of State for tho Colonies, Colonel Seely, in a speech at Chesterfield, admitted that the unemployed now totalled nearly 9, per cent., compared with 4 per cent. for. the same period of 1907.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 313, 28 September 1908, Page 7
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