People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — Operatives Starving. [ARTICLE]

Operatives Starving.

London, Dec. 10.—At the close of the week there are 30,000 non-union cotton operatives out of work in Lancashire. The deepest distress prevails among them. Already everything available has gone to the pawnshops,. whitAi are filled with pledges of all kinds. The majority of the sufferers ate unable to obtain credit, and are foodless and fireless at a period when the weather is unusually inclement. They are reluctant to apply for public relief, nevertheless the poor law uffi. cials are bnsy doing what is possible for the destitute.