NUDE PARADE THREAT

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4473, 21 November 1933, Page 2

NUDE PARADE THREAT

BY HUNGRY UNEMPLOYED GIRLS Starving girls of Vancouver are threatening to parade naked through the streets of that city to call attention to their plight unless the Government comes to their rescue. This was the message conveyed to Mr. R. B. Bennett, Canadian Prime Minister, by Mrs. Flora Hutton, a chubby little woman, of the delegation of the National Congress of Unemployed, received by the Federal Cabinet. She painted a ghastly picture of the

plight of unemployed women in Vancouver. “Is it nothing to you gentlemen of the Cabinet that women are starving?” she cried. “They are in want of decent clothes to wear. I tell you that if something is not done there will be a nude parade in Vancouver.” “We’ll organise every woman to protest against these conditions. “How those vVomen and girls need clothes! Three or four of them will be living in a room together, and one will have to borrow clothes from the others to have enough to wear to be decent while she goes down to collect her relief. “Then she comes back and takes off the dress and hands it over to one of the others, so that she can go down and get her relief. “The girls are asking 5.60 dollars (22s at par) in relief and 15 dollars (£3) every three months for clothes. They told me to tell Mr. Bennett that he is going to see nude parades unless something it done.”