WORLLEŚ SOLDIERS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 218, 9 June 1919, Page 6

WORLLEŚ SOLDIERS

THE RIOTING IN LONDON DEMOBILISED MEN ABSORBED IN INDUSTRY (By Telesrapli-Prces Association-Copyright London, May 27 (delayed). The. Home Secretary (Ihv E. Shortt), before the adjournment of the House ot Commons, gave details of the rioting in Victoria Street and Parliament Square. Ho said that the discharged soldiers and 6ailors had got under the control of eonio wild spirit's instead of their proper leaders. The police behaved with great restraint, and only used force when compellert to. More discharged men in Britain had already been taken back to civil life than in any other country. Mr. J. lVardle (Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Labour), when speaking to the deputation, said that 8,500,000 out of .1,600,000 demobilised had already been absorbed in industry. . The number drawing unemployment pay was now r decreasing.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

GOVERNMENT PROVIDING WORK EXPENDITURE OP LARGE SUMS SANCTIONED. ~ (Rec. June 8, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 23. ' Sir. R. S. Horae (Minister of Labour), replying in tho House of Commons U> the debate .regarding i unemployed demobilised soldiers, declared that industries had reabsorbed 81 per cent, of tho demobilised soldiers. Most employers had kept pledges to reinstate the soldiers. Unemployment was decreasing. The Gov-, eminent would shortly provide work on' an unexampled scale, including the building of two hundred thousand houses. Tho spending of .£7,500,000 in repairing roads, .£2,500,000 on gas and waterworks schemes and j£15,000,000 on other schemes had been sanctioned.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. UNEMPLOYMENT QUESTION TO BE INVESTIGATED. (Rec. Juno 8, 5.5 p.m.).' London, May 28. The Government, in conjunction with various ; Government Departments, will conduct an investigation into tho wholeunemployment question, with special relation to the grievances of discharged soldiers.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assii. ' , LAND FOR MIRYICE MEN (Rec. Juno 8, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 28. , Lord Emle, in the House of Lords, stated that twelve thousand es-eervico men had applied for land, of whom ten thousand had been approved. Of 120,000 acres needed, 35,000 had already been acquired, and negotiations were proceeding respecting 90,000. It was.difficult .to get possession of land' before Michaelmas, 1920, unless compensation was paid to tenants—Aus.-N./!. Cable Assn.