HUNGER MARCH
NEW JERSEY TROUBLES
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received April 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 the seats in the Lower House and declared their intention to stay there .until the Legislature 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 the hardy 50 demonstrators who had spent the night sleeping on the Legislature benches with the 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 the 550 local communities which arc compelled to find the funds and care for the needy who cannot receive federal aid.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 123, 24 April 1936, Page 2
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