UNEMPLOYMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1921, Page 3

UNEMPLOYMENT

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. BIG demonstration. , • LONDON; Oct 13. Tbe biggest unemployed demonstfntion ever seen in Isondon paraded the principal streets. A deputation of six visited the Premier’s residence. Tho parade was orderly, with the exception of a slight- scrap with the police, when the vanguard essayed to bleak the cordon into Trafalgar Square, which was forbidden ground. LONDON DEMONSTRATION. LONDON, Oet. 13 There lias been all Unemployed demonstration in Loudon. Some few hundred of the demonstrators succeeded in advancing one hundred yards in Piccadilly Circus, when a strong Communist element instigated the previously quiet unemployed to aids of violence.

One red-armleted man hurled stones at the police. Violent incidents billowed. The police then charged with their batons. The panic-stricken men and women began rushing into side streets. A number were injured, including seme Women shoppers, ivlio were caught ill the rushes. Later on the police cav.c ini* conflict with a large party of red-ir mb ted men, this resulting in the Cnmmtini.-ts being dispersed, after fierce encounters. Meantime tin* principal body, consisting of main thousand unemployed, returned to their own localities pcacefully.

Tliel'c wt'n* four thousand loot polio and two hundred mouatedx engaged in dealing with the situation.

DEADLOCK IN U.SvA. WASHINGTON, Oet. 11. The U.S. A. Unemployment Conference inis split over tin* question of recommending wage reductions. A division occurred when tin* employers’ representatives presented a statement declaring that wages must conic down, together with prices. When a serious quarrel seemed inevitably, the conference adjourned ' avert "clashes between the Labourites and the employers. The latter’s statement for the employers said that there must be no favourites in a. drastic economic adjustment that was* necessary tn es'-ifi-lisli new prices. The employers and employees all must meet tin* conditions and make a sacrifice. A minority Labour report declined

that there must lie no policy of wage reductions. On the contrary, then* must he a policy of calling for the l.ighcste possible rates of wages m everv industry. A reduction in the poi-ple's buying power, it slated, stops purchasing.' which in turn stops mamiI'aetwring, and so creates unemployment.