LABOUR, ETC,
London, Nov. 28, Mr Shaw Lefevre, First Commissioner of Works, informed a deputation of the unemployed who waited upon him that the Government shortly intended to erect buildings in London at a cost of £BOO,OOO. The vestries in North London offered the unemployed in the district work at stonebreaking, but the men rejected the proposal as an insult. In an article in the Nineteenth Century Mr John Burns, M.P., demands that bold and prompt measures should be taken to provide work for the unemployed, and urges that employment should be found for a great number of them by the municipal bodies. He expresses himself as strongly in favor of a reduction in the hours of labour, and predicts that politicians will find that the world moves on its belly when empty bellies have votes. Mr Shaw Lefevre has undertaken to expedite certain £ ublic works j n order to fcb'eve the unemployed. Amou£ the works to be put in hand at once is the demolition of Milbank Prison, which is to be replaced by the National Art Gallery. Washington, Nov. 28.
President Harrison will make the tour of Europe next year for the purpose of studying the labour question.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2432, 1 December 1892, Page 1
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