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Show LONDON'S UNEMPLOYED. Eugene Suo once wrote a book entitled enti-tled "Paris, as she laughs and weeps." The contrasts of light and shade in all the large cities of, the world are start-lingly start-lingly marked and sociologists, reli-i reli-i glonists and reformers are alike puz-I puz-I zled how to modify them. Yosterday at a conference of delegates and members mem-bers of the trade and labor organizations organiza-tions in London to consider the prosent condition of labor and to discuss measures meas-ures for the relief of tho unemployed during the coming winter, it was stated that the number of unemployed was greater grea-ter than generally supposed, and that distress dis-tress would be very, severs during the winter months unless something practical prac-tical in the way of relief should be accomplished. ac-complished. It is a grave question that confronts London every winter with ever growing magnitude. Tho army of unemployed, not tramps and vagabonds vaga-bonds by choice, but people anxious yet unable to seoure employment, is estimated es-timated to number upward of 100,000, and it is no easy task to save them from starvation aud the desperate steps thoy may resort to in consequence. Private' charity is powerless to cope with the mighty evil and a policeman's baton is a poor alternative for the cravings of an empty stomach. This year especially especial-ly when parts of Ireland are threatened with a famine which the government must try to avert, the relief of London's unemployed becomes a critical matter The labor organizations move none too soon to prepare for the calamity. . |