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HULL CITY COUNCIL CRITICISED. "MINIATURE SOVIET REPUBLIC.” . London, Dec. 19. “The city of Hull has become a miniature Soviet republic owing to Socialists capturing the municipality at the November elections,” says the Daily .Mail. “The Socialists are making the city a paradise for parasites. They have reconstituted the committee which administers transitional benefits to the unemployed who had exhausted their dole. “Whereas the previous committee care - fully weighed cases, the Socialist? are revising them at the rate of 900 a day and spending £2OOO a week. This has resulted in a shortage of local funds, the administrator of which sent an S.O.S. to London.
“The Minister of Labour, Mr. Oliver Stanley, demanded an explanation, and threatened to appoint a special official unless the Socialists mended their ways. The Socialists then further speeded up the methods to the advantage of applicants as much as possible before the new scale of benefits is introduced io January. In some cases they are paying 17s a week to tfee unemployed member of a family earning nearly £8 a week "There are many instances of similar recklessness, which is estimated to coat the city £lOO,OOO, equivalent to a rate of 6d in the pound on top of the prwent Ife Id in fee
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 December 1934, Page 5
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