On Tuesday the Prime Minister received a deputation from the
General Couneil of the Trades Union Congress, the primary object of which was to urge that an imme- diate meeting of Parliament should be summoned in order to deal with unemployment. Mr. Poulton and Mr. Smillie, who were the spokesmen of the deputation, laid great stress on the physical and moral deterioration of the skilled workers in consequence of long and continued unemployment. They also pointed out the serious effect that unemployment was having on the financial ppsition of the Trades Unions. The National Union of General Workers has been compelled to stop paying unemploy- ment benefits. Mr. Poulton added that the workers regarded "this long Parliamentary holiday "- as an Indication of indifference on the part both of the Govern,. ment and of the Legislature. That was not only an untrue thing to say, but a dialectically injudicious one.
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