MASS DEMONSTRATION
e c As a protest uyuinst the Communist e included members of the U.W.A. Executive endeavouring to belittle the I, value of their signatures to our Relief n Workers' petition to have the relief -f depots closed, the Anti-Charity League requests the 1002 relief workers who l " i signed the petition to refuse to attend e any mass demonstrations. Before the relief workers decide to join in the y proposed "mass demonstration,'' they n should decide: whether or not s Jcli v procedure is merely the "prompt" of i the Communist element of the Unem- ,» ployed Workers' Association. The relief workers should also consider whether e the Communists have ever done anyie thing to the benefit of the working s classes. Another thing to be serif ously considered is the fact that those p relief workers who leave their work „ for such purposes as demonstrations a have no right whatever to claim pay--0 rnent from the moneys paid in unemr ployment taxation by the people as e a whole. It should be the duty of ,t every relief worker to consider the e "go without" his wife and children will „ suffer from a reduced pay envelope. " Mass demonstrations are useless efforts, and such procedure only serves to encourage the Communists, —J
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21256, 30 August 1934, Page 10
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