CONDITIONS IN BRITAIN

Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1925, Page 4

CONDITIONS IN BRITAIN

ARCHDEACON JULIUS’S IMPRESSIONS.

WELLINGTON, Nov. 18

A great change for the worse in Britain’s industrial conditions was noticed by Archdeacon Julius, of limaru, in thef four months’ visit from which he returned to-day on the lonic. Ho was able to contrast it with conditions as he saw them before the war. Unemployment was increasing all the time, he told a reporter, and a good many of the workers appear to have lost a feeing of hope. “The difficulty seems to Ik?,” ho said, "that the men are inefficient because they ate nut paid enough wages, and the vicious circle is completed by the inability ol manufacturing employers and otlieis to pay more owing to the effect of stagnation of trade. The linns are not financially sound enough to launch out and secure now business.” “The position does not end with the big towns and cities. It seems mote acute in the country, where a man is not paid nearly enough to support a faniilv m reasonable comlort. Ihe backbone of England seems to lie in the north, where 1 was struck with tlu* more hopotul outlook. "1 found that many week-day amusements were carried out on Sundays. Sunday amusements are indulged in much mure than they are in New Zealand.

"I spoke to many of the immigrants on the trip out. and I think all are of a ivpc that will he welcomed here. I warned them that, they could not always get the particular job they wanted out here, but would olten have to take what they could get. .Many <*l them are public school hoys.” The continuous stream ot motor tral|i, on England’s main roads greatly struck the New Zealand cleric. “1 was coming in from a place twenty miles outside Loudon,” he said, “on a Saturdnv afternoon, and there was a continuous stream of cars travelling at Urn same puce all the way. with only a lew vards between them."