UNEMPLOYED. NO MENTION IN KING'S SPEECH.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1908, Page 5

UNEMPLOYED.

NO MENTION IN KING'S SPEECH.

MOTION OF KEGEET. DEFEATED BY FORTiTNINE VOTES. By Te'ufraph,— rresa Association.— Cnpyilght. (Received February 1, V 7.39V 7.39 a.m.) LONDON, 31st Januaiy. An amendment, moved in the Commons to tile Address-in-Reply by Mr. Ram.say Macdonald (Labour-Socialist member for Leicester), regretting the absence from the King's Speech of any promise to dtal legislatively with the unemployed question, was negatived by 195 votes to 146. The minority included all the Labour members and Nationalists, and a i few Unionist Liberals. Many Liberals abstains?! from voting. Several newspapers state that many Unionists voted with the minority. The Right Hon. John Burns, President of the Loca' Government Board, in attacking, tho motion, said some, of tho aims of Socialism were Utopian. Incidentally he mentioned that Mr. Asquith's Old-Age Pensions Bill would provide for" millions of people. Mr. Macdonald, interviewed on the tj- i suit of the division, said it would cncouiage the Labour party to proceed with their Unemployed Bill. SLACK SEASON IN AMERICA. (Received February 1, 8.38 a.m.) NEW YORK, 31st January. The secretary of the American Federation of Labour states that there are four hundred .thousand more unemployed in the United States than usual at. this &casoii of tho year. They are chiefly in Now York, Chicago, and St. Louis.