BRITAIN'S UNEMPLOYED.
LONDON, September 25. The Under-Secretury of State for the Colonies, Colonel Seely, in a speech at Chesterfield, admitted that the unemployed now totalled nearly 9 per cent., compared with 4 per cent, for the same period of 1907.
A MOB DISPERSED. k
POLICE USE BATONS. Received September 27, 3.25 p.m. LONDON, September 26. The Manchester police, using their batons, dispersed a crowd of two thousand unemployed who were threatening 1 to raid the Town. Hall. Mr John Burns, President of the local Government Board, has authorised Manchester to borrow £50,000 for relief work purposes.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3003, 28 September 1908, Page 5
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96BRITAIN'S UNEMPLOYED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3003, 28 September 1908, Page 5
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