HUNGER MARCH
Demonstrators Sleep on Benches in Legislature NEW JERSEY CRISIS (By Telegraph—Press Assn,, Copyright.) (Received 23, 1.50 p.m.) TRENTON (New Jersey), April 22. Beginning as a protest against the failure of the Legislature to supply State funds for relief in which a small group of unemployed men and women took over seats in the Lower House and declared their intention to stay there 'lentil the Legislatur was_ reconvened, a hunger march of considerable proportions began upon the capital to-day.
Trucks and trailers carrying hundreds of men and women rolled into the city and reinforced hardy 50 demonstrators who spent the night sleeping on the Legislature benches with law books as pillows and food supplies furnished by local merchants and dispensed from the Speaker’s dais. The failure of the State to appropriate relief funds threatens to bankrupt 550 local communities, which have been compelled to find funds and to care for the needy who cannot receive Federal aid.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 111, 23 April 1936, Page 5
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