the Unemployed Question.

Thames Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 10519, 1 June 1906, Page 2

the Unemployed Question.

800,000 WORKERS IDLE.

SUGGESTIONS OF LABOUR

PAJtTY.

[P«r Unitbd Pbbss Association

LONDON, May 31

Prior to, adjournment the Labour Party heckled the Government respecting the delays in assisting tho unemployed.

Mr Barnes stated there were eight hundred thousand willing workers idle.

Mr Walters advised a, return tovho system of apprenticeship and an entire revision- of elementary school methods which' gave boys a smattering of all sorts without any practical buiiciit. .It would Tdc more 'humane to shoot on Salisbury Plain thousands of the unemployed than leavo tto'im to tramp the streetts.

Mr Thome said if the Government did nothing, he 'advised the unemployed to adopt Mr Burns' suggestion of 1886 and go and help themfiolvc*. Mr Keif Hardie said .determined efforts would soon secure an eight hour day. Government ought to grant ai million towards the unemployed. Mr Burns stated that ninety five per cent of the unemployed were unskilled labourers, ninety per cent of them: 'being town labourers, who' had been displaced by stronger bred country men. Parliamflmt must devise some return to the system of apprenticeship. It was better to prevent men leaving tha land than ploiM demoralised townsmen on th« land.