UNEMPLOYMENT.
DEMANDS FOE. BELIEF. THE POSITION ACUTE. GUARDIANS’ OFFER REJECTED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 31. Thousands of workers from Shoreditch, Hackney, and Holborn to-day marched to the respective Boards of Guardians to demand adequate relief. The Woolwich unemployed interpret adequate relief at 25s weekly each for man and wife and 8s per child, in addition to rent. When the Guardians refused the demands 1000 workers threatened to enter the workhouses. The Shoreditch Guardians offered a husband and wife £1 10s per week jointly, one-third of this amount to be in kind, also 5e for each child, no deductions to be made on account of pensions or other sources of income, and no relief to exceed £3 weekly. The unemployed unanimously refused the offer on the ground that it was utterly inadequate. Owing to these doles manv Londoners, who arc usually hop-picking in August and September, 'are refusing to go to the hop fields.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18340, 2 September 1921, Page 5
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157UNEMPLOYMENT. Otago Daily Times, Issue 18340, 2 September 1921, Page 5
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