Poverty in the East End of Lomdon.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 424, 30 November 1889, Page 6

Poverty in the East End of Lomdon.

Till:, poverty of the English in the East End ot London has largely arisen from the immigration of poor Jews Irom Poland, Russia, and Bohemia. Not long since the stress of the labour competition was po great that a riot was feared, and the sufferings of the native population almost wan an ted a serious demonstration. The Jewish Board of Guardians, and some of tbe wealthy Hebrews of London, have stopped the influx of their pauper co-religionists. Their representations to the Jewish authorities abroad, coupled with an intimation that they would not assist in London any new bands of emigants, had the desired effect. A distinguished and earnest London Jew tells us that the poor people who flocked over to England during the last few years literally beliexed that they could pick up gold in the streets. Several of their friends who had gone to London before them, having starved on two or three shillings a week at home, reported the receipt ot wages at the rate of JCI a week, which drove the poor wretches at home wild with envy. Then there was a ca«e where the Jewish Board of Guardians had lent one man £100 to set him up in business and jL'5O to another. The news of these things soon spread, and the rabbis assisted the poorest of their Hocks to go to London. Hence the miseries we heard of, more particularly last winter, and the gruesome triumphs of the sweater king. London is indebted to the Jewish Board of Guardians and the leading members of the great Jewish families -for their action in the interests of the unhappy East End of the town. The boon would be complete if the remainder of the tribes were shipped back to their birthplaces.