UNEMPLOYED CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1921, Page 5

UNEMPLOYED CRISIS.

OUTLOOK IN BRITAIN.

DEMAND FOR RELIEF.

A SERIOUS PROBLEM.

By Telegraph.—Press Assn—Copyright.

Received August 31, 5.5 p.m.

London, August 31

The London unemployed, estimated to total 150,000, having mostly exhausted the period in which they were entitled to national unemployment benefits, are flocking by thousands in search of relief by guardians.

The newspapers point out that the sums some guardians are paying out exceed a family’s normal wages, instancing Islington, where the guardians are allowing unemployed families a maximum of £3 13s fid wfeekly. Shoreditch, Hackney, Woolwich, Bermondsey and Camberwell unemployed are now demanding that a husband be granted 15s, a wife 15s and each child 7s 6d, in addition to rent 15s and coal allowance 3s 6d, with a maximum of £4 13s 6d.

Woolwich unemployed are demanding relief equalling an unskilled laborer’s wages at Woolwich arsenal, and threaten to seize the guardians’ offices unless this is granted. Many boards of guardians in South Wales are in financial difficulties owing to the relief paid out during the strike. The Sheffield guardians are £200,000 overdrawn, and 9000 people have not paid their rates. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.