THE UNEMPLOYED.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1921, Page 5

THE UNEMPLOYED.

A SCENE IN LONDON. POLICE AND REDS CLASH. OUTBREAK SOON OVER. Telegraph.—Pres* Assn.—Copyrigtt. Received Get 14, 55 p.m. lon don, Oct. 13. The biggest unemployed demonstration ever seen in London paraded the principal streets and a deputation of six visited the Premier’s residence. The parade was orderly, with the exception of a slight scrap with the police when the van-guard essayed to break the cordon into Trafalgar Square, which was forbidden ground.

A few hundred demonstrators succeeded in advancing a hundred yards in Piccadilly Circus, when a strong Communist element instigated the previously quiet unemployed to acts of violence. A red ann'.eted man hurled stones at the police and violent incidents followed. The police charged with batons, panicstricken men and women rushing into the side streets. A number were injured, including women shoppers, who stere caught in the rushes. Later the police came into conflict with a large party of red armletted men, resulting in the Communists being dispersed after fierce encounters.

In the meantime the principal body of many thousands unemployed returned to their own localities peacefully. Four thousand foot police and two hundred mounted police were engaged dealing aith the situation. CONFERENCE SPLIT. LESS WAGES OPPOSED. Received Oct. 14, 55 pjn. Washington, Oct. 13. The unemployment conference split over the question of recommending wage reductions, the division occurring when the employers’ representatives presented a statement declaring that wages must come down together with prices. When a serious quarrel seemed inevitable the conference adjourned to avert clashes between the Laborit ts and the employers. The latter’s statement said there must I be no favorites in the drastic economic adjustment necessary to establish new prices, but employers and employees all must meet the conditions and make sacrifices. The minority Labor report declared that there must be no policy of wage reduction; on the contrary, there must be a policy of calling the highest possible rates of wages in every industry. A reduction in buying power stops purchasing, which •tops manufacturing and creates unem-ployment.—Aub.-N-Z. Cable Assn. BIG EMIGRATION SCHEME. London, Oct. 12. In regard to unemployment, it is understood that the Government is considering r big scheme of emigration for overseas settlement within the Empire, probably involving a grant to assist it, but consultations with the Dominions’ Governments are necessary.