THE UNEMPLOYMENT SCANDAL.

[The evening papers have lately published some striking

incidents regarding the struggle for existence that is

undergone by certain gentlemen who are in receipt of the

Unemployment Allowance.]

"We are longing for work," said a young man who, after suffering the

horrors of war for nearly four years in the Ministry of Superfluous

Hotels and Hutments, has just been evacuated. "We have prepared a list

of billets that we are ready to take up at a moment's notice."

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 4, 1919. · 第 9 / 53 题