BRITISH LABOUR CRISIS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1921, Page 3

BRITISH LABOUR CRISIS.

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. FEELING THE PINCH. GREAT DISTRESS IN WALES. LONDON, April 21. The Daily Chronicle’s Cardiff correspondent says bitter cries of distress are heard in all parts of South "Wales. Many families are already in dire need. Women are pawning their wedding rings. In some houses the only realizable furniture is the bed. Three hundred families are destitute in Canton district where hungry men'are thronging Cardiff employment exchange in a fruitless quest for work; also four thousand workless seamen in the docks. Many destitute are in Cardiff. The health committee has therefore asked Government to accommodate a large number of coloured seamen in concentration camps if they cannot be repatriated. Distress funds are being used to relieve the worst cases. Churches and colliery lodges are joining in organising funds. Probably communal kitchens will be opened in many districts where there is a coal shortage.

CONFIDENCE IN HODGES. (Received This Dnv at 9.45 a.inA LONDON, April 22. The Miners’ Conference passed a resolution of confidence in Mr Hodges and also emphatically protested against the railwayman and transporters official explanation in attributing their defection to the refusal of the miners to meet the owners. The real cause of the unjustifiable withdrawal can only be looked for in the character and structure of the Triple Alliance itself.