The Archive · 1924

A Grey Picture

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London, Oct. 3.

We have just now a thoroughly dissatisfied community-dissatisfied with the Government, the weather the state of trade, aspects of social life, with the state of finance, with unemployment, with our prowess thing els Let me deal briefly with allo tunemployment?—the figures are still going up! The number of persons on September 22, 1924, recorded on the registers of employment Exchanges, in Great Britain was 1,189,200. This was 16,260 more then on September 25, 1924, but 105,428 less than on December 31, 1928, Meantime the Labour Government seem helpless but, the working classes are being led to; Imagine that the Bolshevist.loan in going to restore everything. Poor deluded peopl Trade—it is very indifferent. The Cotton Trade und the Cost Mining Industry are both very alarmed, the former at the prospects of " special deal between France and Germany firned against us, and the Tatter at the payment of reparations in coal which experience has shown destroys our Foreign trade. Both sections of industry have sens detations to the Prime Minister—biscuits" us he is now popularly called in view of his shure aequis tion in MeVitie and Price.

"the Weather? Oclober started with a gort of fog. September, like Aucust, was a hopeless month. Rain fell en weary evry day, and vere} is har sd, elimatte cally, a decent holiday, dyerieulture is falling disastrously. in volume though prices ate very high due to shortage. Only roots "prosper—mangel wurzel are as big. ax bale Toons, On the Continent the wea, ther though bad in Augarz was) good in September.

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