THE PRESS AND THE UNEMPLOYED.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 399, 7 January 1909, Page 3

THE PRESS AND THE UNEMPLOYED.

STRONG COMMENTS. Some strong Comments , on the attitude of two.of, our local contemporaries regarding the present.'unemployment ■in Great; Britain were made at a meeting held at Pet-one lastWeriing f -in connection. withi raising funds to alleviate distress among the British .unemployed, and,;a,,motion on the. subject, was carried unanimously. .; ' ■ ; ..■;. . • , Mr... Joseph -Piper ■ moved"That ■ : thi? meeting .protests against the' callous indifiererico exhibited by a section of the Wellington . press regarding the .distress existing ini .the-Old Country .for many, month's past." Speaking to the motion, Mr.. Piper said that, so. far as he observed, not a line' appeafed 'on: 'the subject of '-the : shipbuilding trouble,; hut the. ;unemployed were; described as . "pMple .. who .missed the": lius''. and • • the "debris; of civilisation,".' "I . would 1 like -to have. hold of the man who' wrote that," de-clared'"■]fc/-Eipj?r;...:;//He.''^ou]d^b'eifd«bris-', df, civilisation' quick and-lively; (Hear; ■ hear;) When we .find this policy, of absolute: sileiice 'o& the- part of- the pr.6ss if is- nit 'creditable to/them..'?:. He concluded ./by : bbservihg ;V th'at the system of commerce how adopted; by-the European countries..was not-only anti-social but:-anti-Christian/; (Hear, hear;) : ' ... Mr. W. Palmer seconded the "Motion; ,: 'Chairman': (Mr. J. W. M'Ewan, the ; Mayor of I'etono) -:-Fthink--th<v motion is -in order.": Things'of less importance get better treatment; ! The Biirns-Johnson ! fight,'- for inmore attention."' (Laughter)': "•/.The motion was carried-unanimously.: -