PORRIDGE STRIKE
—««3gl»i GOVAN PAUPERS PROTEST LONDON, Ist June. i Because they received porridge 730 times in a year the inmates o-f Go-van (Scotland) poorhouse struck and tnarch,ed in a procession to the Council Chambers. ] One complaint made was that the inmates bad to be in bed at 8 o’clock in the evening during tlio summer, whereas prisoners were allowed to stay up till 9.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 10 June 1927, Page 7
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