LONDON UNEMPLOYED.
, PES PRESS ABBOOIATIOJI. London, F#brutry2o. In the House of Commons, an i»terra'iog debite took place oa the unemployed question. Mr Fenwick sap* ported tho R ght Hon. W. H. Lang's ion t h it the lack of employment had been exig^eiated. O.ber members declared that the solution of the trouble was not in turning the authorities into amatenr farmer/). Mr K ir Hardie's amendment to enable th-) authorities to employ the uutmployed un the land and also in in)u,tri a, was ul imately negatived by 201 votes to 161. Mr F-.-nwick, tbe Liberal member for Wausbck division of Northumberland said he might be expected to sympathise with'any genuine distress, ae he is a worker himself, He begin work at the age of nine in a mine. He wai Parliamentary Secre'ary of the Trades Union Omgrert from 1890 to 18M.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 47, 23 February 1903, Page 2
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141LONDON UNEMPLOYED. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 47, 23 February 1903, Page 2
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