UNEMPLOYMENT
DEPUTATION TO MINISTER
A deputation from the, National Union of Unemployed comprising Mr. F. E. Lark, president, and Mr. D. McLaughlin, national secretary, met the Minister of Employment (the Hon A Hamilton), Mr. G. C. Godfrey, Commissioner of' Unemployment, and Mr. W. Bromley, a member of the Unemployment Board, yesterday. Mr. P. Fraser, M.P.,- introduced the speakers. Almost every phase of unemployment was discussed, principally 50 per cent, sustenance, provincial town and country allocations in. relation, to rent and the cost of living generally, the position of married men who refused to go into camps, the drastic . reductions imposed upon, men "who by industrious effort were in the initial stages of making themselves independent of relief," and the cut in ration allowances. . The proceedings were not open to the Press.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 51, 1 March 1934, Page 13
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131UNEMPLOYMENT Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 51, 1 March 1934, Page 13
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