THE UNEMPLOYED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8714, 16 October 1908, Page 5

THE UNEMPLOYED.

A COMMONER ARRESTED

(By Electric Telegraph—Copybiget.)

(Per Press Association.)

(Received October 16, 8.10 a.m.) LONDON, October 15.. Mr John' Burns, speaking at Tynemouth, said no legislation relating to the right to work of the unemployment problem would be introduced this session, but by next much more would bo spent in the distress areas in non-pauper relief thaii during the whole period of the Lancashire cotton famine.

The police have-summoned Mr Will Thorne, a Commoner, on a charge of inciting the unemployed in Trafalgar Square on October 10, to rush the bakers' shops. Mr Burns, at Newcastle, declared he refused to be a party to panic legislation in regard to unemployment. The war against poverty was not a skirmish but a long dogged campaign lasting perhaps a century.

SCENES IN THE HOUSE

SOCIALIST MEMBER FORCIBLY

REMOVED

(Received October 16, 10.46 a.m.) LONDON October 15. In the House of Commons immediately after questions had been dieposed of, Mr Victor Grayson, the Socialist M.P. for Colne Valley, appearing to be in a greatly excited state, rose and moved the adjournment of the House in order to discuss the question of unemployment. The speaker declared that the Licensing Bill was the first business. Mr Grayson refused to permit a discussion of the Licensing question while people were starving in the streets. He refused to obey the Speaker's ruling either to eit down or to stop speaking. Ultimately the Sergeant at Arms removed him from the House, and he was suspended for the rest of the sitting.