THE LONDON UNEMPLOYED. London, February 21.
A m Ah^ meotin gof the nn employ ed was held in Hydo Park to-day, under the auspices of the Socialist organisation, There was an enormous attendance,f ully forty thousand persons being present. Speeches wore made condemning the proposal to establish outdoor relief work for the unemployed. Burns, the leading Socialist, against whom proceedings have been taken connected with the late disturbances, in the course of his address predicted that bloodshed would onsurc unless the social reforms asked for were granted. There Mas a large police force 3n the ground and in the neighbourhood, but their services were not called into requieition, as the assemblage dispersed in an ordorly manner. ["age" special.]
London, Fobuary 15. Mr Joseph Chamberlain, Presidont of the Local Government Board, has authorised the initiation of a system of outdoor relief for the unemployed in London, subject to the labour test. London, February 19. — The fund for the relief of the unemployed has now reached the sum of £47,000. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales contributed £250.
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Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 143, 27 February 1886, Page 5
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177THE LONDON UNEMPLOYED. London, February 21. Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 143, 27 February 1886, Page 5
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