UNEMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN.
WORKLESS INCREASE IN NUMBERS. GOVERNMENT ATTACKED. EARLY CENERAL ELECTION POSSIBLE. Ey Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. United Service. (Received January 17, 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, January 16. Tho week-end sees a great accession to the unemployed ranks, tho complete, or partial closing of more works, rendering idle an additional 100.000. A short-timo notice posted in tho Government docks and arsenals caused turbulent excitement. Mass meetings strongly condemned tno Government action. Tho Sunday newspapers view the situation gloomily. Mr J. L. Garvin, in the “Observer,” attributes the position to the crushing load of taxation, which must be lightened by hook or by crook. Mr Blatchford denounces the Government labour proposals for meeting unemployment, as simply jioliticaJ quackery. So mo papers foresee an early general election, unless tho Government evolves a bold policy of reconstruction.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16327, 17 January 1921, Page 7
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