The Unemployed.

Colonist, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7761, 18 October 1893, Page 4

The Unemployed.

[ONITID PBESS ASSOCIATION.] Chbistchobch, October 17. The deputation of unemployed from the meeting waited on the Minister of Labor this morning.J He. dec'ined to attend an adjourned meeting, and characterised the statements made at the meeting as untruthful. /Jle stated that he would explain his eondbot at a meeting tp be called by him at his own time. ■ ""'"'- ..,. v ,,,; „-.,... .Later.-- ■ Kf*Mmi "fiae arranged for twenty unemployed to be sent to the LillbOrn road wotkf, .Sbothiaiid. v At|bf invitation of the Mayor. Mr Eden Georgif' another meeting of tbe unemployed was helJHliit aft-ropOn. when about 30a were preMnt, a Jhfgji nnmlHr »ppea»ei to have been tAtnM^^byi]Atiti6eiiy. "- Mr Powell reported bavihg/ieeDlJtae Hon Mr Beeves, and pceeenteCUnji etiolation passed ihe pretions daf« «pi oaM th* Minister hid expressed hia wiilh^iMM; to naeive a depuUtion from tbe gMniaa^upam^oyed. After Mr George had made ad aftaek on the "Lyttelton Times" and Mr Beeree, Mr Wfaitii g moved, *♦ That Mr Beeves be asked to come down and mpMbe unemployed st the Tuam street Ball at 2.50 p.m t©*i_artr.ow, and also to meet Mr Oeoige ow :h<_ platform." In tpeaking to |ht reiolotion, *hich urn oirried, Mr Qeorge

, n& that if Mr Beeves did not aoeept the I invitation, he shoald brand him iii ooward. A depotation wtttid on Mr Beeves io the , afternoon, and asked him to meet all the r; unemployed at the Land Board Offioe to* r mono*. The Minister promised to bt pre* I Bedt_ ,-. ';. v; v-. ■ ■■.([.-.;;>-• „.«J ■• '»-■'. j Ddnibin. Ootober 17. .Binoe the Ist -June 420 nren have been [ entered on the books- of the local Labor . Bureau, and it is estimated that 160 of these are at present out of work. At the request i of some of the latter, Mr Fish, M.H.R, teleI graphed to the Premier, hoping that married . men here would be given work before men who were sent down from Christchurch,