BRITISH UNEMPLOYED
z NEW SYSTEM OF RELIEF. MANY PROTEST MEETINGS. LONDON, Feb. 4. Protest meetings against the new system of unemployment assistance aud the means test were held throughout the country at the week-end. It is estimated that 300,000 men. women, and children attended indoor and out door demonstrations, and 30,000 marched in a procession from the Monmouthshire industrial valleys and attended a protest demonstration at Pontypool Park. It is expected that the Hon. O. Stanley, on behalf of the Government, will announce action in the House of Commons to-morrow 'to remove hardships.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 7
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93BRITISH UNEMPLOYED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 7
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