The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-15
BAD TINES In ENGLAND.
GLOOMY OUTLOOK REPORT
ED
From Many Important Centers, Where
Work f. Lacking.

Work is Lacking.
Though the outlook for the coming
winter in the country is far from en-
couraging, there are indications that
the distress, speaking generally, will
not be quite SO acute as in London.
Accounts from different districts vary
considerably. In Birmingham some of
the leading trades have shown graf
flying improvement within the last few
months. Cycle makers are doing well,
and the motor industry is developing
steadily There is, however, a slack
ness in the hardware and building
+ trades. In only a few branches in
| Sheffield is trade really bad. Many of
the large firms have government orders
| that will last through the winter. At
the poor law offices only the normal
number of recipients of relief is antici-
pated. The state of the labor market
in Leicester is much better than it was
! this time last year. At Portsmouth it
is not anticipated that the distress will
| be more than normal.
"A SASOlAlS ACpDl - lOMCNGly SblIlto
from Newcastle, where the trades I'M
ion officials estimate that fourteen
thousand men are out of employment.
The high price of coal is seriously ac-
centuating the depression in the iron
and steel industries, and shipbuilding
and engineering firms are said to be
feeling the pinch severely. The ship
yards are steadily paying off men, and
matters are made worse by the sact
that seVeal hundred reserVists have re-
turned to find no work obtainable. The
redeeming features of the situation are
that large building operations and all
way extensions are proceeding in and
around Newcastle.
Artisans are declared to be in a
worse position in Nottingham than at.
any time during the last five years.
Many large contracts have recently
been completed, and the anks of the
unemployed have grown so considera-
bly, that bricklayers. masons and plas-
terers are leaving the distict in search
of work Vey few of the three thou
sand hands engaged in the cycle trade
are making full time. The hosiery
trade, once one of Nottinghams staple
industries, is suffering from marked
slackness. Norwich and district has
not a. pleasant tale to tell. Larger calls
for out-relief are expected, and the in
crease in the price of meat is also a
factor to be considered.
without taking into account the
chances of a coal strike, the prospects
in South Wales arefa from bright.
M. Harpur, the borough engineer of
Cardiff, states that already there are
signs of coming distress which win tax
the unemployed committee of the cor
poration to the utmost. From the
number of applicants already in my
| books, he says, II can foresee hard
times for many in South Wales"
Up to the present Glasgow does not
anticipate exceptional poverty this
winter. Il
:, There is indication that the winter
prospects for very large section of
the population are very bad indeed.
The officers of the Salvation Army
who are concerned in the extensive re-
| lief work of that organization are in an
exceptional position to Judge as to
what is likely to happen, and they
have no hesitation in declaring that the
outlook could not we'll be worse Brig
adler Kitching, one of the chief officers
at the Queen Victoria street headquar-
ters, said yesterday that it was indis-
putable that there is far larger pro-
portion of people out of work at pres
ent than has been the case for a long
time past ITO illustrate this fact" he
said, "our elevators as we call our
workshops for people out of other en-
ployment, have been crowded out for
weeks, both in London and the prov
| inces, and at the present time in Lon
don we are turning away about sixty or
eighty applicants a day. One must al
ways make some preparation for win
ter hardships, but this year the state
of affairs isf ar worse than it was las
year, for example.
1--WE have an unusually large number
Of people coming to us daily for assis-
lance in their home affairs-respectable
people who would not ask IL they could
avoid it, and who need help to meet
their rent and so forth. We are doing
what we can to alleviate the distress
of these unfortunate persons and to
avert the necessity of their being
turned into the streets All Duh
homes in London are full of those who
have obtained employment from us,
having failed to get it elsewhere. In
few days we shall be issuing our an
nual appeal for help, and under the
circumstances the need for funds is
greater than ever"
Mr. B. T. Hail. the secretary of the
Workingmen's club and Institute Un-
! ion, with which workingmen's clubs in
London and all over the country are
connected, also said there could be very
| little doubt that the disquieting state
of affairs as revealed in the board of
trades labor department report faith
| fully represented the situation, and
unless things took turn for the bet
ter there was a prospect of keen dis
| tress later on. The lack of employ
ment was very abnormal and he had
| found the position to be exceptionally
bad among boilermakers. Still, it was
reassuring that the audits which had
| been made of the affairs of working
mems institutions lately through the
| fundamentally of his union had shown
| them to be maintaining their position
excellently, with the reverse of any APP
pearance Of distress. But that was no
guarantee that it would be the same
| next time.