BITTER CRIES OF DISTRESS.
FRUITLESS QUEST FOR WORK. (Received 1.30 p.m.l LONDON, April 21. The "Daily Chronicle's" Cardiff correspondent states that bitter cries of distress are coming from all parts of South Wales. Many famiiles are already in dire ni'pd, and women are pawning their yvedding rings. In some houses the only realisable furniture is the bed. Three hundred families are destitute.
Hungry men are thronging the Cardiff Employment Exchange in a fruitless quest for work. There are also four thousand workless seamen in the docks, many of whom are destitute. The Cardill Health Committee has therefore asked tho Government to accommodate a large number of coloured seamen in concentration camps if they cannot be repatriated. The distress funds are being used to relieve the worst cases. The churches and colliery lodges are joining in organising funds, and it is probable that communal kitchens will be opened in many districts where there is a coal shortage.— (A. and X.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 95, 22 April 1921, Page 5
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