DOLE FORMS
• OBJECTIONS BY MINERS. (Australian Press Association ) SYDNEY, October 23. The northern miners declare that they will 1 not sign any dole forms containing a questionnaire, while the authorities are understood to be equally determined to adopt a stand: “No forms, no rations.”
: The men are planning that if rations are refused on Monday the unemployed will lay siege to the dole depots, answering any disciplinary measures by camping on the doorsteps with their families till the Government submits.
The position is serious, affecting many thousands of unemployed. The police are watching any attempt to interfere with the dole depots.
The unemployed, resenting the questionnaire submitted to applicants for the dole, organised several protest demonstrations, which developed into' a riot at Paddingon, where it is alleged inflammatory circulars were distributed, and Communist speakers incited the mob.
The police quelled the disturbance, four arrests being made. Mass meetings on the northern coalfields caused lively scenes, and threatened serious developments, but after making -a bonfire of a large number of dole forms, Kurrie and Cessnoek demonstrators quietened.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 October 1932, Page 2
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