THE WORKLESS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 330, 17 October 1908, Page 5

THE WORKLESS.

LABOUR COMMONER CAUSES A SCENE.

REMOVED AND SUSPENDED. POLICY SPEECH BY MR. JOHN BURNS. (BX TELEGEAI'H—PIiESS ASSOCIATION— COPriUGIIT.) London, October 15. In tho House of Commons, immediately after questions had boon disposed of, Mr. Victor Grayson, Socialist M.P. for the Colne Valley Division of Yorkshiro, becamo greatly excited. Ho moved tho adjournment of tho House in order to discuss the question of unemployment. Tho Speakor, however, declared that tho Licensing Bill was tho first business. Mr. Grayson said ho refused to permit discussion of the Licensing Bill while people wore starving in tho streets, and also refused to obey the Speaker's ruling, either to sit down or stop speaking. Ultimately the Sergeant-at-Arms removed bim. Mr. Grayson was, later, suspended for the rest of the sitting. ALLEGED INCITEMENT TO VIOLENCE. TO RUSH BAKERS' SHOPS. London, October 15. The polioe have summoned Mr. Will Thome, Labour M.P. for West Ham, on a charge of, on October 10, inciting unemployed in Trafalgar Square to rush bakers' shops. NO-PANIC LEGISLATION. NON-PAUPER RELIEF, BUT NO BILLS. A PROTRACTED WAR. London, October 15. The President of the Local Government Board, Mr. John Burns, in a speech at Tynemouth, said no legislation relating to the "right-to-work" or unemployment problem would be introduced during this session of Parliament,, but that by next session much more would have been spent in the distress areas in the shape of non-pauper relief than during the whole period of the Lancashire cotton famine; Mr., Burns declared that he refused to be a party to panic legislation with regard to unemployment. War against poverty was not a skirmish, but a long, dogged campaign, lasting perhaps for a century.