THE UNEMPLOYED

Evening Star, Issue 13091, 26 October 1908, Page 6

THE UNEMPLOYED

INCITING TO RIOT. LABOR ALP. BOUND OVER. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 24. Mr Will Thorne, ALP. for West Ham, was charged at the Westminster Police Court to-day with inciting to riot while addressing the unemployed in Trafalgar square. The defendant denied the charge, and claimed that his speech was taken too literally. Still, he held that it was not a crime for a starving man to help himself to bread. Air Curtis Bennett (stipendiary magistrate) ordered the defendant to enter into sureties for good behaviour for a year, failing which he would be imprisoned for six months. Tho magistrate remarked that if such incitements were allowed to go unchecked the lives and property of peaceful citizens would be placed in jeopardy. A stop must bo put to attempts to cause people to assemble for illegal or wrongful purposes. AIAKING POLITICAL CAPITAL. LONDON, October 24. In the House of Commons Air Winston Churchill, in reply to Earl Winterton (member for Horsham), admitted that there was somewhat more unemployment in Great Britain than in Germany. AIR HARDIE’S AIOTION. LONDON, October 25. (Received October 26, at 8.37 a.m.) Air Keir Hardie’s proposed censure motion on ihe Government is due to their exclusion of the Right-to-Work theory from their unemployed proposals.