UNEMPLOYMENT
DEMONSTRATION IN OHItISTQHUROH. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Christchurch, October 20. A parade of 0110 hundred unemployed assembled outsido the Labour Office this morning, and was addressed by .Mr. E. Howard, secretary of the Labourers 1 Union, who advised them to camp on tho doorstep of the Public Works Office, as that office was blocking their engagement. Ho said the chief officer -of the Department would visit Christchurch the following day, and'they must make his life a misery till ho gave them work. Tho crowd was photographed in order to convince the Minister of Public Works of the existence of unemployed, and dispersed after agreeing to besiege the Public Works Office at an early hour next day.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2286, 21 October 1914, Page 9
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116UNEMPLOYMENT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2286, 21 October 1914, Page 9
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