DEPRESSION AT HOME.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19154, 10 November 1927, Page 10

DEPRESSION AT HOME.

THOUSANDS LIVING ON THE DOLE. Labour conditions in England are depressed to the utmost, according to Mr T. P. Sewell, radiologist at the Christchurch Hospital, who returned yesterday after a visit to Great Britan and the Continent.

Mr Sewell said that in the town of his birth, Sunderland, with about 160.000 inhabitants, there were 14,000 people, 9000 men and 5000 women, out of work and living on the dole. Industrial life was at a standstill, and throughout the shipbuilding yards scarcely a sign of activity could be seen. Mr Sewell said that one man he met, 2" years of age, had not worked for three' years, but was optimistically talking of getting married. "I don't know how they manage it," he said. "All the trains at excursion time are overcrowded with trippers, every unemployed man is a race follower, and all the women dress well. Yet some of them are perpetually out of work. They all look on the dole as a sort of bonus and cannot even entertain the idea of its being withdrawn. "It seems to me that the British Government should provide work of some kind for the peoplo instead of allowing them to draw the dole for doing nothing."