DEMANDS OF WORKLESS.
RELIEF THROUGH WINTER LONDON, October 26. More like a police barracks than the administrative headquarters of London was the County Hall when a deputation of seven men and three women voiced the unemployeds' "means test" grievances. More than 1000 policemen formed a cordon, while mounted police guarded the forecourt, the entrance to which had been barricaded and barred. Flying squad vans were posted nearby. The deputation demanded an unemployment allowance of £1 a week for adults, 10/ for a wife and 5/ for each, child, in addition to a pint of milk a day where needed. The unemployed, said the deputation, ought to be furnished with boots and lcwt of coal a week during the winter.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 260, 2 November 1932, Page 7
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119DEMANDS OF WORKLESS. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 260, 2 November 1932, Page 7
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