UNEMPLOYMENT
AID AND MEANS TEST
NEW SYSTEM IN BRITAIN
POPULAR DISLIKE
United Press Association—By Electric Tete*
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(Received February 5, 11 a.m.)
LONDON, February 4.
Protest meetings against the new system of unemployment assistance 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 atteiid'a protest demonstration at Pontys>ol Park. ;..■•■;.
• If is expected that Mr. Oliver Stanley, Minister of Labour, on "behalf of the Government, will announce action in the House of Commons tomorrow to remove hardships. ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 30, 5 February 1935, Page 9
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103UNEMPLOYMENT Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 30, 5 February 1935, Page 9
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