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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2987, 11 September 1878, Page 2

Scarcely will the Tesult of to-morrow's election be notified by tlie Returning Officer - when the new Councill will be Required to enter upon their duties, the ordinary fortnightly, meeting of the Council falling on to-morrow night. One item of the business which will come before the Council is the. consideration of a requisition to the Deputy Mayor asking him to convene a public meeting of the unemployed " for the parpose of getting the names of all those who desire to avail themselves of the Government offer of a free passage to Canterbury." The Deputy Mayor declined to act upon ibis requisition (which is signed by about a hundred persons), as the County and Borough authorities have made arrangements to find work for the unemployed in the district. How the Council will deal with this requisition it is impossible to say. A very small proportion of those who signed it can be said to be unemployed, while numbers of them are in tolerably good circumstances. Some of the men who have been loudest in the demand for work are also most forcible in their denunciation of the County and Borough., for suggesting stone breaking, which they' characterise as degrading employment. They urge that the Government offer

should bo accepted, but they forget that the Government will not act without the assent, of iho loc;ilbodies., t Moreover, it is scarcely likely thai the Government would under any circumstances make provision for transporting women and children to Canterbury, " and what is to bpcome of them if the husbands and fathers leave? It seems to us that some of the unemployed are also unreasonable, as they can scarcely expect the concurrence of the local bodies to their removal if they refuse work here when it is offered.