BRITISH POLITICS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XII, Issue 2373, 1 June 1906, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE I NEAIPLOYED QCHSTION. PER UNITED PRESS ASSI*CIATICN. London, May 31. ■>ii Henry Campbell-Bannerman, in reply to a memorial from 115 Labour and Liberal members, announced that lie would deal with the unemployed question after the AA'liitsuntide recess, inis would enable the Di'trt Committee during the winter to tulfil their resjmnsihilities.

iv«*<! this day at v 33 a.in.) I .on don. Mav 31.

Prior to the adjournment of the House <>t Commons, Labourites heckled the Government resjiectiiig their delay in assisting the unemployed.

Mr Barnes stated that there were eight hundred thousand w illing workers idle.

Mr Walters advised the return to i system of apprenticeship and the ■litire revision of elementary school

methods, which gave hoys an educational smattering of all sorts without practical lienefit. It would he more humane to shoot on Salisbury Plain thousands of unemployed than to leave them to tramp the streets. Mr Thorne said it tin* Government did nothing lit* advised the unemployed to adopt Air lolni Burns's suggestion ot 1886 i.e . to go and help t lieillselves.

Air Keir Hardie said the revival of the apprentice system would soon secure an eight-day. The Government. ought to grant £ 1 .OOO.(HX) towards the unemployed.

Air Burns, President of the Loral Government Board, said that nimtytive per eellt. of the unemployed were unskilled labourers, and ninety per

cent, town labourers, who had las'll displayed by their stronger bred eoun(i yinen. I’ll rI in men t must devise some return to the apprent ieeship system. It would he better to prevent men leaving the luiul than than place demoralised townsmen oil the land.