WET AND MISERABLE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17919, 25 October 1932, Page 7

WET AND MISERABLE

UNEMPLOYED MARCHERS MEANS TEST CONTROVERSY LONDON, October 24. Drenched, miserable, and hungry, strikers’ trudged from all directions towards London during the week-end. The flooded roads caused the parties to shelter in various towns and the demonstrations arranged for in some places were abandoned. The object of the marchers is to present a petition signed by a million workless to Mr. MacDonald demanding the removal of the means test, the cessation of wage cuts, and a shorter working week. QUESTIONS IN COMMONS COMMUNISTS RESPONSIBLE (British Official Wireless.) Ree. noon. RUGBY, Oct. 24. Parties of unemployed from several parts of the country, who are expected to reach London on foot within the next few days, were the, subject of questions in the House of Commons, The Health Minister, Sir E. Hilton Young, said the duty of making the necessary arrangements for the accommodation of these people, who had been induced by Communist organisations to leave their homes and proceed to London, rested with those responsible for such demonstrations 1 . In the event of their failure to do so, application could be made by Individuals In need to the public assistance authorities, .but it would not be the duty of those authorities' to facilitate those demonstrations by making special arrangements.