TROUBLE IN DETROIT
■PHASE OF UNEMPLOYMENT.
Detroit, July 16.
Efforts to solve the unemployment problem with £3,600,000 of municipal dole have reached a curious phase. A thousand dole beneficiaries, finding the city on the verge of closing down the free beds and free food supply, fathered ip the City Hall, denounced the welfare workers, and demanded the creation of a welfare fund of £20,000,The malcontents are biting the hand that fed them; for they demanded further that Mayor Murphy and Controller Hall, who have incurred much criticism for open-handed spending, should cut their own salaries and try to live on 7s. a week. .' An exciting day passed, with the police reserves called out at one moment, and sent back the next.
Meanwhile, the city is sinking deeper in a sea of deficits. The unemployed contend that it should resist payment of its debts for a considerable time, and thus “get even with the bankers.” They .declare that the municipality must not only inaugurate a moratorium for itself, but must pay out £2 a week to single men and from £3 to £4 to married men.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1931, Page 9
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