THE LONDON POOR.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1959, 22 October 1889, Page 4

THE LONDON POOR.

In the report of the Mansion House Committee on the Metropolitan distress (says an exchange) it is stated that 8000 men on an average are daily turned away without any em-' ployment from the docks of London, The condition of female labour is yet worse. A devoted lady, lam told, the daughter of an East end clergy, man, being desirous of ascertaining the true condition under which the I working class sisters labor, disguised herself and obtained employment in a match factory at the comparatively easy task of filling match boxes. ! At' ''tie end of the week she was informed tha tshe had worked fairly well as a beginner, and was handed' tbe magnificent sum of 2s 3d. Lord Meath says, 'Whatever else may be a matter for doubt, oue thing is certain, that the present condition of the poor cannot be allowed to continue. Something must be done or this country will find itself one morning landed in a social revolution; Unmistakeable rumblings in the lowest social strata are being heard even now. The superincumbent masses ef the law-abiding working, and middle and upper classes of society are at present ponderous to be moved, but who can say how long it may be —if no vent be given for the dangerous imprisoned gases before the volcano may burst forth in its fury, and engulf an unprepared and unsuspicious World.' How propietic are'these utterances of the noble lord. 1 * The capitalists of Bnglanid are now being taught a lesson. It is to be hoped they will profit by it. How true it is—• 'That man's inhumanity to man, Makes countless thousands mourn.