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THE DOLE IN UNITED STATES. FORCING UNEMPLOYED TO WORK (United Press Association—Copyright). NEW' YORK, July 20. A message from Dfes Moines (Iowa) states that to meet a labour shortage ■on the wheat fields, with the harvest season reaching its height, relief headquarters in 16 counties stopped dole payments in the hope of forcing the unemployed to accept work at the prevailing pay of two dollars a day with keep. Growers are complaining bitterlythat most of the normal labour supply is now on relief, and that the majority refuse to accept work at comparable rates.
(State Governors throughout the wheat belt are preparing to take drastic action to force the unemployed to accept work unless the Federal Government intervenes.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 238, 22 July 1935, Page 5
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