VARIOUS ITEMS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7300, 2 December 1910, Page 5

VARIOUS ITEMS

HOT TIME AT COLCHESTER. LONDON, November 30. At Colchester yesterday Mr Winston Churchill, Homo Secretary, was pelted with-rotten fish and mud. The windows of the Liberal committee-room were smashed, and a "Young was destroyed. A large ■ force of police subsequently patrolled the streets, fearing retaliation in tho Unionist quarters. "Captured by socialists." Lord Joioey, a large colliery owner In Durham and Northumberland, and formerly Radical M.P. for Cheater-le-Strect Division of Durham, in a letter to the electors of Newcastle, says the Socialists have captured the Government. If the Socialists capture tho trade unionists the‘Government, will—although in a minority—be mere wreckers and Socialists instead oi promoting reforms such as those of Gladstone, Bright, and Cobden. , A CHANGE OF FRONT. The newspaper “ Truth ” says that the Peers have suddenly changed front, but if they are wise in their generation they will offer even a half measure. The paper condemns Mr Lloyd inflammatory appeals to class prejudice. CAUSE OF UNEMPLOYMENT.

Mr George Wyudham, speaking at Manchester, said that forty-three in every thousand trade unionists were unemployed to-day. Thirty years ago the proportion waa ten in the thousand. This increased unemployment was due to allowing imported goods to be sold below cost of production.