BRITISH POLITICS.
[Paesa Assooiation.— CopsKiaHT.| THE UNEMPLOYED. THE PORT' BILTj. A SUFFB In the cdßrsf^^Hm!*S^^feiliC House of Commons .on : uuemploymetftT" Mr Ramsay Macdonald' strongly objected to Mr Burns' .contemptuous dismissal of farm colonies for~ women. . If . the Government did not believe in the Unemployed Workmen's Act, he said, -they ought to repeal it. Mr L'->yd George granted only a tiding ovi-r of temporary difficulties. Tho mere provi- * 1?ion. of unnecessaiy work was iemor--alusmg labourers. The amendment was rejected by 159 votes to 70. The Nationalist", raised an obstruc- • tive debate, because the police arrested r JMr Murphy, a Clonmel editor, so early in the morning, instead of pro•/ceediug" hy summons. - T!ie Port of London authority has been constituted. Mr William Wed- | N _ dell i Si r Christopher Furness, Mr fseoretary of the Society of ' Watermen), and Mr Anderson (secretary of the Amalgamated - Stevedores' Union), ai'e among the members. Mrs Despard, the suffragette, has been released from prison on account of ill-health.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 5 March 1909, Page 3
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