STORM OF PROTEST IN BRITAIN
NEW RELIEF PLANS IN DISFAVOUR
MINISTERIAL PROMISE OF CHANGES United Press Association—B.v Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, February 4. Protest meetings against the new system of unemployment assistance and the means test, were held throughout the country at the weekend. It is estimated that 300,000 men, women hnd children attended indoor and outdoor demonstrations. Thirty thousand marched in procession from the Monmouthshire industrial valleys and attended a protest demonstration at Pontypool Park. It is expected that Mr Oliver Stanley, Minister of Labour, on behalf of the Government, will announce in the House of Commons to-morrow what action the Government intends to take to remove hardships. “The News Chronicle” says: “The storm over the unemployment assistance rules is growing. The unemployed at Merthyr, broke the police cordon and smashed windows and overturned furniture in the local unemployment offices, after a thousand women had marched in procession thither to complain of the recent cuts. Seven hundred unemployed demonstrated at Redruth, demanding the withdrawal of the Act.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20026, 6 February 1935, Page 9
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167STORM OF PROTEST IN BRITAIN Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20026, 6 February 1935, Page 9
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