MANY PROTESTS

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 113, 6 February 1935, Page 9

MANY PROTESTS

British Unemployment Relief Rules DISORDER AT MERTHYR Minister Expected to Make Statement By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received February 5, 7.10 p.m.) London, February 4. Tlie “News-Chronicle” says that the storm over the unemployment assistance rules is growing. Unemployed at Merthyr broke a police cordon, and smashed windows and overturned furniture in the local unemployment offices after 1000 women had marched in procession thither to complain of the recent cuts. Seven hundred unemployed demonstrated at Redruth, demanding the withdrawal of the Act. Protest meetings against the new system and the means test were held throughout the country at the weekend. It is estimated that 300,000 men, women and children attended indoor and outdoor demonstrations. Thirty thousand marched in procession from Monmouthshire industrial valleys to attend a protest demonstration at Pontypool Park. It is expected that the Hon. Oliver Stanley, Minister of Labour, on behalf of the Government, will announce action in the House of Commons tomorrow to remove hardships.