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Show I THE WINTER OF THEIR DISCONTENT Winter h approach must convej it depressing message t" the co-j .i of England. With countless thousand! of men on strik. and. othri- hundreds oi" thousands in forced idleness, the snug little Island Is-land must be as deplorabl) afflicted as it was in August, 1914, when thr- horrors ol war burst upon the Brititfb empire A corrfspniwb-nt. t I -1 ; 1 1 " 1 - I'1'"1" "'"l"" ''gard I" th( Whitehall riots which were started by the unemployed says England's Eng-land's total unemployed, aside from toe minora who i ntly went nn strike, ami withoul estimating other workers made idle bj this week's strike, now uumbera 358,000. These figures include 162,000 demobilized soldiers who are still drawing the unemployment dona-linn dona-linn from the tr'V'rnnuMit. London - quota of these idle people is 103,000. Premier Lloyd George, treating the uprisings as ;i purely economic argument, ia' plajwing to hire men to build great new main roads in London end suburbs to cosl fiftj million dollars. Ufi also I plans to overrule the ohj. .-t imis of tin- building unions to labor dihj Hon and proposes to sol unskilled men at work building houaos for poor people. This plan bwlrea tl stablishmenl of great campa like army camps, where the untrained workless men will 1- tough: the different branches of building trades This lateal move on the prt ..t Lloyd Qeorge shows no rc-1 sourceful is the man who. in Britain's darkest hour, changed a nation na-tion devoted to the pursuits of peabe into a greal mjlitai force give j ovrr almost wholl i. the producing of the instruments -i desti I tion. and did this herculean task in less time than the averag requires in making up his mind how to irote. |