THE UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3027, 26 October 1908, Page 5

THE UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM.

HELPING THE WORKERS. LONL/ON, October 23. The Glasgow Corporation intends to memorialise the Government tq proceed with the Forth and Clyde ship canal.

AN M.P. BEFORE THE COURT. Receive:! October 24, 4.50 \:.m. LONDON, October 24. Mr Will Thorne, a member of the Hous? of Commons, was charged at Westminster Police Court with having, wlil: a Idressing a meeting of unemployed in Trafalgar Square, incited those present to riot. Defendant denied the charge, and claimed that his speech was taken too literally. He still held that it was not a crime for a starving man to help himself to bread. Justices Curtis and Beunett ordered defendant to enter into sureties for his good behaviour for a year, failing which he would be imprisoned for six months. They remarked that if such incitements were allowed to go unchecked the lives and property of peaceful citizens would be placed in jeopardy. A stop must be put to attempts to cause the people to assemble for illegal or wrongful purposes.

MORE UNEMPLOYED IN BRITAIN THAN IN GERMANY. Received October 25, 4.30 p.m. LONDON, October 24. In the House of Commons, Mr Winston Churchill, in reply to the Earl of Winterton, admitted that there was somewhat more unemployment in Britain than in Germany.