Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-10-07

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ment makes some men and women
desperate and desperate men and wo-
men, with access to alcohol, are not
normal.
Many think the government might
better have subsidized industry than
paid unemployment wages. 1t would
have kept folks at work though their
product was not marketable immedi-
ately. Indeed | think this is mentally
agreed to generary although few say
it.
But for the government to follow
such a course is quite impossible. Fed
tby radical agitatOrs workers would cry
out against subsidies for Industries
for the employers. If it had been done
quickly-men and women busy would
have had no time to listen to the rev.
o!utionists Busy employers would
have kept employees too busy to criti-
else. But Britain never does things
quickly
So while |, personally, do not expect
a revolution here, the times tru y are
full of most disquieting signs.
Class war" is headiined almost ev-
cry day in almost every British news
paper. ]. r. Clyncs, workers leader,
but conservative of mind Che was Lord
Rhordda's assistant minister OF food)
is devoting all his time to convincing
labor that it must eschew the strike
and seize the more effective political
weapon. The political weapon might
mean radicalism sometime, the strike
means revolution now.
CIynes BIames Both Profiteers and
Labor.
C'vneG. a clear and able thinker and
an advocate of orderly retrogresslol,
blamcs the present situation on the
war-rich, ignorant and therefore mer-
ciless in profit making and on habits Of
war-wastage fastened on the people by
an unframed o fetal class necessarily
trusted during the war emergency with
more than it was safe TO let them
have
He blames workers for their war
time greed for wages, which, no in
dustr-y could pay ard live; he b!ames
employers for mercilessness when the
slump came, saying they drove men by
the actual urge of hunger to accept
ance Of terms unjust and dreadful.
Against human justice he says the Ia
Dor leaders have not been the greater
of the two sets of offenders, but he says
that they have erred.
Such talk from C'ynes has great sig
nif@anCe.
Now what are the evidences OF revo-
luton?
wont attempt to summarize the
London situation. Let me speak of one
day only; l might select many others.
At Hammersmith, a middlc-class and
manufacturing section, thousands OF
unemployed marched to the guar
dians" Uhe board in charge of poor
houses and paupcrism) demanding 3
pounds - shiilings weekly Cat normal
exchange about $19) for every workless
family of six, with less for smaller
families and the unmarried. When de-
MED they rioted.
Besieged Officials in Their Offices.
Unemployed of Woo,wich when n
demand for 5 pounds weekly and iree
rent was refused barricaded the Wool
w!ch county's doors so that its mem
b"rs could not so home for two days.
The board had offered - shillings for
single men and women AID childless
couples with pounds for man, wife
and six children.
At Stratford, LcytOn and WalthaS-
tow similar crowds demanded ) pounds
weekly fiat for each mature man and
woman idle
In Shoycditch, a typical London
workman's district, men and their
wives in great throng demanded ad-
mission to the wOrkhOusc. Declaring
themselves to be out Of work and,
therefore. pGupcrs they cried for the
privileges Of paupcrism. Tw2nty-four
getting in for the night in the morn
ing refused 20 work for their food
and lodging. Po'icc were called, ar
rests made and seven sentenced to
hard labor. amid iccrs from all who
cuuid ynt into the court room and vast