MELBOURNE UNEMPLOYED
REVOLUTIONARY DEMANDS MELBOURNE, Dee. 15. Plans for mobilising the unemployed were made at a conference when revolutionary proposals were adopted at a meeting organised by the unemployed workers’ movement which Is the creation of the Communist Party. It is proposed to establish a defence corps and hold mass demonstrations in all districts. Among the demands adopted by the conference were: That the irrespective of colour, sex, or race, a job at a living wage; that a seven-hour (lay and a fiveday week must be established in every industry without a reduction in wages; free lunches to all school children; the right to strike and picket and the abolition of the use of police against strikers unemployed and working class demonstrations.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 450, 16 December 1930, Page 7
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