THE UNEMPLOYED.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 331, 19 October 1908, Page 7

THE UNEMPLOYED.

MR. GRAYSON'S METHOD OF PROTESTING

SUSPENDED IN COMMONS. LABOUR LEADER'S REPUDIATION. (by TELIGIIAPn— rEESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) London, October 16. . In the House of Commons, during discussion on tho Licensing' Bill to-day, Mr. Victor Grayson, member for Col 110 Valley, who was yesterday removed from the House by tho SergeanWt-Arms, created another scene. Ho insisted on speaking on the question of unemployment, and, refusing to obey tho Speaker (Mr. J. W. Lowther), was "named" and suspended. Mr. Grayson left the Chamber amid great disorder. ■ Mr. Arthur Henderson, chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, entirely dissociated the party from Mr. Grayson's conduct, adding: "Mr. Grayson is aware of the Labour Party's efforts' to securo from the Government definite and immediate proposals dealing with the execeptional distress arising from unemployment." THEATRICAL. "A HOUSE OF MURDERERS! 1 ' (Rec. October 17, 4.20 p.m.) London, October 17. When Mr. Emmott (Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Ways and Means) " named" him in committee, Mr. Grayson retorted: — "You may name, but cannot shame me." After the Speaker had been summoned, the suspension was voted, and Mr. Grayson was ordered to leave the Chamber. Ho continued attempts to speak, and shouted: " I leave this, House with pleasure. I foel that in leaving I gain dignity." Ho then turnod to quit, but, retracing his steps, said:—"This House is a House of murderers." Mr. Grayson then left his seat, and disappeared from view. Tho sentence of suspension will last for tho entire session unless it is rescinded. TWO WORKERS' MEMBERS. Mr. Albert Victor Grayson, who is only 26 yoars of ago, and youthful of appearance, served an apprenticeship to engineering for five years; investigated theology with a view to becoming a Unitarian minister; .then studied economics at Owens College; and became a journalist. Though he largely supported himself with his pen. it was bv his Socialist oratory that ha gained notice. He is' a native of Liverpool, his father boing_a Yorkshireman, and his motheT Scottish. Ho says he has passed through every phase of the poverty and suffering incident to the lives of the very poor. "I have endured," lie remarked, "the suffering of a stowaway in- the fore-peak of a sailing ship, and a tramp of 280 miles, consequent upon that, through Wales, where I slept in barns, casual wards, and low lodging-houses, and bogged my way with a crowd of other tramps." Mr. Grayson bearded the House of Commons before, but not to tho same extent. Mr. Will Thorne, 51 years of age—who, according to; yesterday's cablegrams, was summoned for inciting the unemployed in Trafalgar Square to rush bakers' shops—worked at a ropowalk, and at eight in a brickfield. Ho has been a member of the Parliamentary Committee of tho Trade Union Congress since 1891, and a member of the West Ham Town Council since 1890. '