Unemployed in London.
! DEBATE IN THE COMMONS.
EXAGGERATED STATEMENTS.
United Press Association. — By Blcc- | ' trie Telegraph. — Copyright.
" ' - Received February 21, 9.1 a.m. London, February 20. <' Ijn the House of Commons, an interesting debate took place, on tho unemployed question. Mr Fenwick supported the Kt. Hon. W. H. Long's co;itention that the lack of employee nt had been exaggerated. >*Ofh r er meinTaers declared that tbo ho ution of the trouble was not in >tu:-ning the authorities into amateur faipners. . ■ . Hr Keir Hardies amendment to ei> abie the authorities to employ tVc unemployed on the land and also va industries was ultimately, negatived i.'by; 201 votes' to 161. j n Mr Fenwick, .the Liberal jinember for IvWinsbeck district, of Northumberland [since 1885, might be expected %o symi pajthise with any genuine distres:-., asj he is a worker himself. He began work at the age of nine in a mine. He was Parliamentary Secretary of thte Trades Union Congress from IS'JO ,tol 1894.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12197, 21 February 1903, Page 5
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161Unemployed in London. Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12197, 21 February 1903, Page 5
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