HUNGER MARCHERS.
PENNSYLVANIAN DEMONSTRATION. HAimiSBURG (Pennsylvania), July 13. Delegations of hunger marchers converged to-day in buses and trucks on Harrisburg to protest against the breakdown of the relief system through a legislative deadlock. As the demonstrators assembled for a mass meeting at the steps of the Capitol building the Senate Finance Committee strove to break the impasse on a revenue programme designed to raise 15,000,000 dollars to care for Pennsylvania’s destitute till December 31. The doors of the House and Senate chambers were locked for fear that the unemployed would attempt to enter. The protesters included 100 men and women from Philadelphia, who came in four buses provided by the Mayor (Mr David Wilson), who took up the cudgels on their behalf urging the adoption of a State relief programme.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 201, 15 July 1936, Page 9
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