British Unemployment

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 39, 17 October 1923, Page 6

British Unemployment

GOVERNMENT RELIEF >ORKS.

MENACE IN THE RUHR.

Pte<#*ed 10.45 a.m.), :-, l'x London, October 16. . : Sir WJ;?^ 18 ! 0^-^^8 ' speaking ai> ,Mv!md<W fn! ftt addition to SthQ. relief, .yrork already,, in progress, .Cabinefe had authorised, a further • expe*|ditursi- ,j of . fourteen minions * 9t«r|ingy w#kih& forty mil^ons., 'Large stocks,,; of iron and -*rt*el'r,in..the; Ruhr,, which Were waitJ .:ting to beduinped at,much , below British manufacturing. prices, constituted a, menace, which.lt, would be .Btupendoua* follv. for,the Government ..to iallow. 9<o .forebhadowfed Pacing orders fofc the construction jof 150 bridges weeks. . including , a.tworn}?l4 bridg?., across ■ the Tay_aij} .JJundee,' a : million 1 , stettfnsr.'.-'. '*'--'■*.:■■. .■■-,.■„. '.::.....,,.■.. ./:.;-:.■ .. ■;-Sir ;W.; Jovnsonrßieks said they saw tlfe , sig, orders totalling , ijwo and. a-half millions ; in vajue with the steel trade. LABORITE'S PROTESTS* Loudon. October 16. . "^4r r .Th,omaß, .speaking at Panoras. denounced as, miserable ,the assumption that, Unemployment was curable by. doles. He said that,.on©, hundred thousand men had not, done a,; day's work since they vfinwihod sh*sr They had not only lost their trade but itheir, characters. !. ~<J4r Thom'as protested against the attempt pa exploit the presence of the Dominions Premiers in favour ..<rf;.,tiarifF.,reform, and declared that . it,wag farcical to propound systems * , of.. ooionial', preference that would raise price of children's buns, and €paWef/fcbo i<> make 1 . marV profit. , •'" ~. »