UNEMPLOYED IN ENGLAND

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4905, 20 November 1925, Page 2

UNEMPLOYED IN ENGLAND

SPIRIT OF HOPELESSNESS. , “ IN A VICIOUS CIRLCE.” “The amount of unemployment in England is saddening,” remarked Archdeacon Julius, of Timar.u, who returned to New Zealand by the lonic on Wednesday from a visit to Great Britain. “The saddest aspect of the problem is the spirit of hopelessness which pervades the people. The condition of trade is such that the workers. cannot be paid sufficient wages in order to get enough to eat. The real fact of the matter is that many of the workers are inefficient because they are not fed enough. The result has been that a spirit of hopelessness has settled upon who, as ' it were, have got into a vicious circle through being unable to see any escape from their hapless condition. I was, however/much struck; with the backbone of the workers in the North of England, and I think they will, pull through all right.” Archdeacon Julius-, who spent four months in England and on the Continent, said he had been much struck by the good manners and friendliness of the people of England, especially after having been in France. Questioned as to the attitude of the Church in England regarding the modern craze for amusement, Archdeacon Julius said that there was no crusade of the kind in progress while he was there. Amusements and picture shows, were carried on in England bn Sundays to a much greater extent than they were in this country. "The motor traffic is extraordinary in England,” he stated. “I was travelling to London recently from a village 20 miles from the metropolis, and for the whole way there was one continuous stream of cans, both going and coming. This was at the weekend.”

Questioned as to how the Imran-' grants who had come out on the lonic viewed their prospects in a new land. Archdeacon Julius said he thought the new arrivals were all.' prepared to make the best of it. “They are of a very fine type,’’ he said, “particularly the English public school boys; I told them that a man coming to New Zealand must not expect to get just the cl,ass of job he expected, and they all quite realise this, and are quite ready to tackle any honest work which offers.”