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THE UNEMPLOYED IN ENGLAND.—The sufferings of the unemployed in England,
if not greater, are at least more vocal than ever, and remarkably various
are the remedies proposed. Besides the project already named, Mr. Keir
Hardie suggested to Parliament the establishment of an eight hours day
and the prohibition of overtime in Government factories, the reclamation
of waste lands and foreshores, the reafforesting of the country, and
the provision of suitable accommodation for the aged poor. The _Daily
Chronicle_ revives an old scheme for reclaiming the Wash, and so adding
a “new country” to England. Mr. Chamberlain’s hope is for extended
markets for national trade. A conference of vestries, presided over by
Lord Onslow, proposed to Mr. Gladstone the formation of light railways,
made and worked as in Ireland, to carry away the refuse of London. The
gravity of this problem throughout the United Kingdom can hardly be
overestimated, and its conditions are not so transient as those in the
United States. There is no such “army of unemployed” in Chicago or New
York as in London.—_From the “Progress of the World,” in the February
Review of Reviews._
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