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PREMIER' SUGGESTS' NATIONAL ASSISTANCE., • ' ■'• Br Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London/February 18. : •Mr. Philip Snowdcn.(Socialist M.P.) stated in the Hoiiso of Commons that there, wero 6000 blind persons in. the workhouses,'and 5000 were receiving parish relief.- Seven thousand were bog-ging'-on the streets, and 3000- were employed at less'than ten shillings weekly. ••''■'••.. ■■;■• Mr. Asquith (the Premier) undertook to-consider, the question of holding an inquiry with a view to devising a scheme of national assistance. •
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1989, 20 February 1914, Page 7
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72SUBMERGED TENTH. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1989, 20 February 1914, Page 7
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