OUT-OF-WORK PAY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLII, Issue 9601, 8 September 1921, Page 5

OUT-OF-WORK PAY

UNEMPLOYED IN BRITAIN.

NOISY DEMONSTRATIONS.

(Per Press Association, Copyright.)

(Received September 8, 1.35 p.m.) LONDON, September 7. Three thousand unemployed demonstrators at Huddersfield demanded £1 a week for each adult, 7s 6d for each child, plus 14s rent, as well as coal. The Guardians refused, but offered food coupons and temporary meals at the Salvation Army barracks. Five ! thousand noisy demonstrators gathered outside the Liverpool Town Hall, and the crowd passed a resolution that unless the Lord Mayor came out and addressed the crowd within 10 minutes, he must take the responsibility for the consequences. The Lord Mayor came out and had a conference with the men's leaders m full view of the waiting crowd. The Health Ministry refused to sanction the proposals by the Islington Board of Guardians to pay the unemployed 63s a week for a man with six children, m addition to rent. The I Ministry's rule is that the amount paid must not exceed the lowest rate of pay to a labourer locally. The Guardians are liable to surcharge for any amount above this. Received September 8, 2.10 p.m.) LONDON, September 7. Unemployed demonstrations were held m a number of provincial towns, including Bristol, where 1000 unemployed attacked the Guardians' offices and were only repulsed after a sharp struggle with the police, during which the unemployed ujsJtl sticks, bricks, iron bars and broke many windows. | Finally the police charged and scattered the crowd. The police made a number of arrests. The Shoreditch unemployed, resolved on a "no rent strike" until unemployment was made a national charge and full maintenance for unemployed was lin practice. In order to enforce the strike the borough was divided into 15 parts each under a marshal, who will arrange pickets to patrol the streets and giye assistance m case of an attempt made to evict a striker,.