UNEMPLOYMENT 127 



Unemployment, and that, witli sumrner Ijarely over, tlic distress 

 is acute, and the entire position more fraught with diihculties 

 than ever. 



" Unemployed Demonstrators Ridden Down 



Batons as Weapons" 



{Sheffield Daily Telvrjraph, Sept. 11, 1008.) 



" workless and foodless 



Sad Plight of Liverpool's Unemployed 



The Struggle for Existence" 



(^Liverpool Courier, Sept. 11, 1908.) 



"20,000 Workers Idle at Liverpool 

 (Yorkshire Post, Sept. 11, 1908.) 



" £17,000 A Week Lost in AVages 



Steady Decline in Work in the Chief Industries 



Gloomy Figures" 



(Daily Express, August 17, 1908.) 



" Rush of Men Seeking Work 



Starving Children " 



(Daily Mail, Sept. 15, 1908.) 



" Twelve Months of Horror " 

 (Daily Telegraph, Sept. 14, 1908.) 



Nostrums for the Unemployed 



Then we are treated to the usual nostrums which largely 

 partake of expensive, useless, and unproductive relief works, 

 which but add to the burden of tax-payers and rate-payers, 

 without doing an atom of real good. Here are some references 

 to these relief measures. 



This is what the London County Council is doing : — 



"The London County Council passed motions or accepted 

 tenders for work which will enable the immediate expenditure of 

 JBIGO.OCO for providing work for the unemployed. 



