Protest Demonstrations
UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE MEANS TEST. United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, February 4. Protest meetings against the new system of unemployment assistance and the means test were held throughout the country over the -week-end. It is estimated, that 300,000 men, women and children attended indoor and outdoor demonstrations.
Thirty thousand marched in procession from Monmouthshire industrial valleys and attended a protest demonstration at Pontypool Park. It is expected .that, Mr. Stanley, on behalf of the Government, will announce their action in the House of Commons to-morrow to remove hardships. Storm Reported Growing Received Tuesday, 7.W p.m. LONDON, Feb. 5. The News-Chronicle says that’ the storm over the unemployment assistance Tides is growing. Unemployed at Merthyr broke a police cordon and smashed the windows and overturned the furniture in the local unemployment offices after 1000 women had marched in procession thither to complain of the recent cuts. Seven hundred unemployed demonstrated at Redruth, demanding the withdrawal' of the Act.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 7
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