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nunt to appear much in the limelight. Tliis crisis 

 brought him his reward. Coiifrunted by a widespread 

 distre.ss and unemployment, compared with which the 

 Lancashire Cotton Famine was a fleabite, John Burns 

 addressed himself to the work of coping with the 

 emergency with splendid composure and tireless 

 energy. It is an amazing fact that during all these 

 trying weeks not a complaint and hardly a question 

 was addressed to the Local Go\ernment Board. 

 I'irmly putting his foot down upon panicky proposals, 

 some of -which emanated from the 

 highest quaite-s in Church and State, 

 Mr. Burns applied himself diligently to 

 encourage, to direct,- and to stimulate 

 the administration of relief bv local 

 .luthorities and voluntary agencies 

 throughout the country. He 

 never lost his head or failed 

 to bring to his task a cheery 

 confidence that things would 

 work out all right if they 

 were only tackled in 

 the right way. And 

 he has had his reward. 



CLEVELAND 



DEMANDS 



5/i0- 



liURHAM 



DEMAND I 



6/ii° 



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CUMBERLAND 

 DEMAND 

 6/6^ 



GLOUCESTER Bt 



! SOMERSET demand] 



4/ii' to 5/10° 



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LANCASHIRE S. 



CHESHIRE 

 bEMAND>r~>. 7/- 



STAFFORDSHIREI 

 DEMAND 

 6/- to 7/- 



ri5H MINERS 

 DEMAND 



6/- 



SOUTH WALES 



DEMAND 



7/2° 



DERBYSHIRE 



DEMAND 

 7/\i'' to 7/6' 



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 LEICESTER 

 DEMAND 



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YORKSHIRE 

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J^NORTHUMBERLANOMg^B Looking back over 

 DF.MAND @Vj the perils that con- 



'6/- to 7/2' ikW < \ , ,u t 1 

 ' "■^" ironted the Local 



Government 

 Board last month 

 we salute the Pre- 

 sident with. " Here's to the 

 captain who weathered the 

 storm I " 



The House of 

 Parliament. Commons showed 

 up admirably in 

 late crisis. The great National 

 Palaver showed that it could on occasion 

 hold its tongue. Silence in certain crises is 

 golden, while speech is only silver. Much 

 impatient nonsense was written by some news- 

 papers about the duty of debating in public 

 delicate questions which were the subject of 

 negotiations in private, liut the House was 

 unmoved by these gadflies of the Lobby. So 

 long as an amicable arrangement was possible 

 it held its peace, and when legislation became 

 necessary it legislated with a rapidity that 

 almost takes away the breath. The House of 

 Lords also deserves a word of praise. It effaced 

 itself. If only it would follow the same course 

 in other crises it would earn a high place 

 among those institutions which have done 

 their duly. The ilcbatcs in both Houses were 

 not unworlli\- ol the occasion. They were 



