WOOLWICH ARSENAL RETRENCHMENT
KING'S REPLY TO PETITIONERS. Received 20th, 10.41 p.m. London, May 20. King Edward's reply to the petition, as sent through Mr. Gladstone, was read at a mass meeting of Woolwich Arsenal employees. The reply expressed grief at the distress arising out of unemployment, and confidence that no man would be discharged whose labor can lie profitably utilised in the public service. Everything, the reply stated, would be done to mitigate the unavoidable hardships referred to in the petition, which he had sent to Mr. Haldanc, Minister for War, with an expression of personal wishes to that effect.
The reply was received with cheers, but Mr. Haldane's name with groans. The meeting resolved in favor of summoning Parliament with a view to stopping the discharges.'
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19070521.2.10.25
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 21 May 1907, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
127WOOLWICH ARSENAL RETRENCHMENT Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 21 May 1907, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in