LABOUR SHORTAGE
UNEMPLOYED REFUSE TO WORK. AMERICAN FARMERS COMPLAIN. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 7.30 p.m. New York, July 20. To meet a labour shortage in the lowa wheat fields with the harvest season reaching its height, relief headquarters in 16 countries have stopped dole payments to force unemployed to accept the work a the prevailing pay, two dollars a day with “keep.” Planters are complaining bitterly that most of the normal labour supply is now on relief. The majority refuse to accept work at comparable rates of pay. State Governors throughout the wheat belt are preparing to take drastic action to force the unemployed to accept the work unless the Federal Government intervenes. SERGEANT F. S. FRENCH WINS. BIG COMPETITION AT BISLEY. London, July 20. At Blsley Armourer-Sergeant F. S. French, formerly of the Hertfordshire Yeomanry, won the King’s Prize, scoring 289.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1935, Page 5
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