MELBOURNE’S UNEMPLOYED
RUSH FOR £1 JOB OVER 200 APPLICANTS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, February 10. (Received February 10, at 11 a.m.) In answer to an advertisement offering employment to a boy at a wage of £1 weekly, over 200 men, youths, and boys arrived. A crowd began to collect at an early hour in the morning, and when the doors were opened there was a wild rush to gain an entry. The manager of the firm said that he had seen nothing like it before in his thirty-six years’ business experience. Mothers pleaded for their boys, he said, and men begged to ho given a job at boys’ wages. All the applicants were desperately 7 eager for work.
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Evening Star, Issue 19787, 10 February 1928, Page 7
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118MELBOURNE’S UNEMPLOYED Evening Star, Issue 19787, 10 February 1928, Page 7
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