WOOLWICH ARSENAL.
KING'S REPLY TO THE EMPLOYEES
Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright > Received 10.41 p.m., May 20tli. LONDON, May 20.
King Edward's reply to the petition as sent through Mr Gladstone, .Secretary for Home Affairs, was read at a, mass meeting of Woolwich arsenal employees.
The King's reply expressed grief at, the distress arising out of -the want of emplovmont. His Majesty was confident that no man would be discharged whose labour could be profitably utilised in the public service, and everything would be done to mitigate the unavoidable hardships referred to in the -petition to Mr Haitians, Secretary for War, with an expression of His Majesty's personal wishes to that effect.
' The reply was received with cheers, but ths mention of Mr Haidaiie's name was received groans. Tha meeting, resolved in favour of summoning Parliament with a view to stopping tin; discharges.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13291, 21 May 1907, Page 5
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141WOOLWICH ARSENAL. Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13291, 21 May 1907, Page 5
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