POVERTY OF EX-MEMBERS
SOME DISTRESS IN ENGLAND. DRIVE FOR FUNDS PROPOSED. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, Dec. 20. Many ex-Labour members of the House of Commons are in straitened circumstances and the party executive is inquiring with a view to aiding the hardest cases, though no fund exists for the purpose. Some of the oldei - men, feeling that their seats were safe, gave up their trade union positions to young men and the reinstatement of the older men is difficult to arrange in the meantime, as the membership of the unions has been declining for years. A few ex-members are in actual distress, being unemployed and penniless. They are planning a door-to-door canvass of members to be known ae the “Two million doorstep drive.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1931, Page 5
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