I was told of two young fellows, unemployed factory hands, meeting one day, when one said to the other, "Thae favvurs hungry, Jone."

With respect to what the woman said about having to pay her rent or turn out, I may remark, in passing, that I have not hitherto met with an instance in which any millowner, or wealthy man, having cottage property, has pressed the unemployed poor for rent.

The rest of the family had been wholly unemployed, during the ten months.

I know that many of these are unemployed operatives trying to make an honest penny in this manner till better days return.

The rest were all unemployed, and had been so for several months past.

But this was another instance of how the unemployed operatives of Lancashire are being driven down from day to day deeper into the pestilent sinks of life in these hard times.

I should have been glad to stay longer with him, but my time was up; so I came away from the town, thus ending my last ramble amongst the unemployed operatives of Wigan.

Some of them had poor-looking little bundles in their hands; and, with a few exceptions, their dress, their weary gait, and dispirited looks led me to think that many of them were unemployed factory operatives, who had been wandering away to beg where they would not be known.

I allude to the wandering minstrelsy of the unemployed.

Perhaps it is because the unemployed are more liberally relieved now than they were at first.

There is no doubt but a very large amount of the shopkeeping class are rapidly falling into the condition of the unemployed labourers.

" Mr. Chase, however, did not long remain unemployed.

Dr. van Dyke rolled up his sleeves still farther and strained to solve the problem of the unemployed, sometimes, when a case interested him, turning his own pocket inside out.

The "bibliographic project" I shall rejoice {20} to see carried out; and though neither an unemployed aspirant nor a fortunate collector (of which class I hope many will be stimulated by the proposition), yet, as I once took some trouble in the matter, I should be happy to contribute some Notes then made whenever the plan is matured and the proposed appeal is madeprovided (I must add, and to you I may add) I can find them.

Even Elihu Titus was sent about his business when he came to observe; threatened with an instant place in the ranks of the unemployed if he so much as breathed of the secret lessons to a town now said to be composed of snickering busybodies.

SOCKMAN, RALPH W. The unemployed carpenter.

There can be no doubt that more crimes against property are committed in cold weather than in warm weather; more in hard times than in good times; more by the unemployed than the employed; more during strikes and lockouts than in times of industrial peace; more when food is expensive and scarce than when it is cheap and plenty; more, in short, when it is harder to live.

For the unemployed are flocking for the good wages from the four fields of Ireland.

When prices are at the lowest point many factories are closed, and much labor is unemployed.

Of the magnitude, importance, and difficulty of this "problem of the unemployed" there is, however, no question.

In 1900 the United States census reported that of all persons in gainful occupations 2.5 per cent had been unemployed more than half the year, 8.8 per cent from three to six months, and 11 per cent one to three months, a total of 22.3 per cent more than one month.

Many persons look upon this type of cases as almost wholly accounting for the problem of the unemployed.

At their best the private employment agencies perform valuable services within limited fields, but they are uncoordinated, and utterly inadequate to meet the chief need, and at their worst they are the instruments of great abuses against the unemployed.

It was a ravishing prospect for their unemployed imaginations, and they left no time in rendering their answer.

A permanent work society numbering a few women otherwise unemployed may find a sufficient sale in the neighbourhood under the patronage of charitable ladies; but when you throw in ninety-five or one hundred pair of hands depending on their work for their livelihood, the supply must necessarily soon go beyond any demand, even fictitious.