ENGLAND'S UNEMPLOYED.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 12581, 30 September 1908, Page 5

ENGLAND'S UNEMPLOYED.

Said to number 1£ (Millions.

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Received September 30, 8.35 a.m.

LONDON, September 29.

Mr Shackleton, a Commoner, in a speech at Colne, declared that the unemployed numbered a million and a quarter, whereof half were general labourers. He advocated, a. petfby or a halfpenny rate to start municipal works pending the' report of the poor law commission.

Mr Steadman, another Commoner, advocated the establishment of more farm colonies similar to that at Hollesley Bay. The Government ought to pui chase and extend the London docks.