UNEMPLOYED.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 329, 16 October 1908, Page 7

UNEMPLOYED.

A SCENE AT LONDON COUNTY COUCIL.

" RICHT-TO-WORK." EXPULSION OF THE INTERRUPTERS. (DY TELEGHArn—MESB ASSOCIATION—COPYRiaiIT.I London, October 14. Turbulent scenes wore witnessed at a meeting of the London County Council. Mr. Smith, secretary of tho Right-to-Work Committee, insisted on moving an urgency motion regarding tho provision of work for the unemployed, although tho chairman had ruled it out of order.. Unemployed in tho gnllories created great disorder, shouting "We are hungry; give us work 1" Eventually they were expelled, shouting " Robbers I Hypocrites I" Sovor'al policomen and attendants vainly triod to remove Mr. Smith, their failure being duo to obstructions, by tho Labour members. , ' Tho council was compelled to adjourn without transacting business. A NEW ZEALANDER'S IMPRESSIONS. Mr. A. D. M'Leod, a Martinborough farmer and Featherston County councillor, who has just returned,from a trip Home, states During my visits to the big manufacturing centres at Home—Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, and other cities—l ,was struck with the eiiormous number of unemployed to be found everywhere, arid moving among business men, as well as the workers, I could detect a feeling of dread for the coming winter. The iron and shipbuilding trades were frightfully slack, and on the Clyde work, was almost at a standstill. The manager of "Denny Bros.' yard at Dumbarton told me that for the months of May, June, and July th6re was only a twentieth of the work on the stooks on the Clyde that there was during the same period two years ago. When I was there there were only 28,000 tons under construction, as compared with half-a-million tons a couple of years ago. Why, when I was there in July there was only one liner being built on the whole of the Clyde. This must, of course, affect us materially in the greatly diminished purchasing power of the people at Home. i The Mr. Smith referred to is probably the Progressive member for Bethnal Green, whioh returned in 1307 two Progressives, Sir E. Cornwall and Mr. E. Smith. In most of the other districts the Progressives were routed, their majority of 50 in the last London County Council being converted into a Municipal Reform majority of 42 (80—88)