MAKE WAY FOR THE UNEMPLOYED.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." J
Srn,—The following extract from the Newcastle Evening Chronicle of November 19th may interest your readers.—I
"UNEMPLOYED CHARGED WITH SLEEPING AT BRICKWORKS.— This morning at Jarrow Police Court, Frederick Hickman and Bert Brown, labourers, were charged with having been found sleeping out at the Albert Road brickworks. Defendants said that on Wednesday they walked from Middlesbrough in search of work, and when they reached Jarrow it was too late to go on to Haden Workhouse. They were usually employed in tunnelling, but now found much difficulty in getting work because nearly all the excavation work in the country was being done by the unemployed. Defendants wore dismissed with a caution, and advised to leave the town."
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