THE UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM

Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 26

THE UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM

THE MARCH TO LONDON. LONDON, February 6. The leaders of the Manchester unemployed, speaking at a meeting at Tower Hill, London, threatened to seize the grounds at Windsor Castle, which they said they would put to better us© than the King did. One large land grab was ■ the best way to solve the unemployed problem. February 7. The representatives of 25,000 Man- • Chester and Salford unemployed are marching to London and to Windsor ; Castle. They are carrying ,a red flag, and intend to present a petition to King - Edward asking leave to inspect the Castle j lands. If the lands are suitable for cultivation, they ask to be allowed 50 acres as an experiment to try to make homes. They promise not to enter Windsor Castle gates without permission. Fifty of the unemployed left Manchester on the march to London, but they are gradually dwindling, while others, before they reached Watford, became dissatisfied with the arrangements, and the Salvationists paid their return fares. Only 18 reached London, and these are now marching to Windsor. February 8. Mr Wirston Churchill, addressing the League of Young Liberals, said the gieatest pioblem of the Empire was at horne — namsly, the condition of the people and the problem of unemployment. This was the Achilles heel of civilisation, and the Socialists and Tariffists fastened thereon like greedy vultures, hoping to be carried into power. He was not prepared to say that all men should be equal, but nobody should have everything untit everybody had had something. The trend of the Liberal policy must increasingly ' be to build up the minimum standard of life and labour, and to provide that above a certain level of decent comfort competition should be free, but no one should be permitted to labour below that level. NEW YORK. February 7. • T1,,." a < <■<' 00 in employed in Chicago, 40.001 ,ii -m l.nus 30,000 in Philadelphia, 30/vM iii Bjit^n, ir,<l .i.OjQGQ ia Pittsjjurg.