MIDDLE-CLASS HARDSHIPS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 73, 19 December 1919, Page 8

MIDDLE-CLASS HARDSHIPS

LORDBUK S2IcII EPIXGUP Lord Burnh.ini, presiding at a meeting of professional and salaried workers :n London, said no great body of men and women was less organiifd, and none had le*3 claw antipathy. The real, victims of the social and industrial catastrophe of the war were tho man in tho black coat and (lie woman who had lo keep up appearances. Tho whole world had been turned ups do down, and the medium of exchange lwd lo*t altogether its old significance. Tho industrial workers of the emiutry. taken ns a whole, had gained a higher'standard of life, but tho increased bonuses which had been received by the classes repiesented at the conference wero not conimmhle to those of the industrial vnrkM - *" Considering how those classes had been treated by the State as taxgatherer he thought they had been too iianily dtn'.t with. Lieut-Commander Kenwortliy, M.P., snid that one of fhe blots on our civilisation before the war was the young pro-f(-s»!onnl worker, who had not enough to «et marred on. He thought there would iV> a Labour Government soon, mostly representative of organised manual labour which vra* inclined to sweat brain-, work'ors. They could meet the danger of Ruch sweating by organisation. The meeting, whieh included representatives of associations of teachers, commercial travellers, professional women, clerks, and other callings, pawed n. resol'ntxm' in favour of tho organisntion of the, professional classes in nu effort to obtain ami maintain a satisfactory standnrd of life. Other resolutions ureed that the principle of the Whitley Beport bo appM_to professional classes, that housing schemes consider tho needs, of (hose clasw, that the cost of travelling be reduced, and profiteering 'be dealt with and protested against tho inequitable'burden of the income-tax.

By dho death at the njc of 50 of .Mr. Alfred Wright, for 27 yen is sin to coachman lo tho'Lord Mayors of London, a familiar fignro pnsses away. TTo took part in all (lie nicturesniie paeeants and processions in Hint period, and when on official visits he drove the Lord Major's stale coach in Paris. Brussels, Bordeaux, and other Continental cities, and in his quaint livery he was regarded with even creator awe tlinn tlw Lord Mayor himself. Ho was given the Coronation 'v-Mlnls of King Edward and King George. Tli? Middlesex Farmers' Union are complaining of damage done by gipsies M fences and of sheep being stolen and tilled.