Thank you for visiting SNEWPapers!

Sign up free
Page thumbnail for Mohave County Miner
Foreign News January 21, 1905

Mohave County Miner

Mineral Park, Mohave County, Arizona

What is this article about?

Severe economic distress in London's East End with tens of thousands of idle longshoremen and 300,000 unemployed men fuels agitation by speakers preaching riot, revolt, and revolution among the starving poor, threatening marches on Mayfair and window smashing unless relief is provided.

Clipping

OCR Quality

98% Excellent

Full Text

A London dispatch says: Riot, revolt and revolution are openly preached by agitators in their harangues to the great mobs of London's starving poor. Not in decades has the distress in the East End of London been so acute as it is at present. Tens of thousands of longshoremen are idle and there are 300,000 other men out of work. Even of the most thrifty of the unskilled workmen were unable to save enough during the summer to tide them through the winter. London is now threatened with a series of parades of the unemployed that will be larger and more determined than those that wearily tramped the West End streets daily for two months two winters ago. Unless the distress is relieved promptly there will be riots. Already the speakers at the meetings of the unemployed in the East End are threatening that if something is not done for their relief they will march into fashionable Mayfair and show the rich West End what the starving East End looks like, besides smashing a few windows to emphasize their condition.

What sub-type of article is it?

Economic Political Rebellion Or Revolt

What keywords are associated?

London Unemployment East End Distress Unemployed Agitation Riot Threats Starving Poor Mayfair March

Where did it happen?

London

Foreign News Details

Primary Location

London

Outcome

threats of riots, marches into mayfair, and window smashing if distress not relieved

Event Details

Riot, revolt and revolution are openly preached by agitators to mobs of London's starving poor amid acute distress in the East End. Tens of thousands of longshoremen idle, 300,000 other men out of work. Unskilled workmen unable to save for winter. Threatened large parades of unemployed larger than two winters ago. Speakers at meetings threaten march to fashionable Mayfair to show condition and smash windows.

Are you sure?