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(Press. Assn.-
UNEMPLOYED PLAN MARCH TO PRESENT THEIR DEMANDS. TROUBLE THREATENED.
-By Telegraph — Copyright) .
OTTAWA, Tuesday. Travelling by automobile, freight car, and on foot a band of unemployed, estimated between 200 and 300, afrived at Ottawa over the weekend to attend tbe workers' economic conference which is scheduled to begin on Monday. Before tbe weelc is out the leaders of the movement declare that 1200 men will be in the capital. A march on Parliament has been planned for Tuesday, when an attempt to see Mr. R. B. Bennett, the Primo Minister, to present the de~ mands will be made. These are said to include a noncontributary employment insuranee for civilians and 1 dollar 10 cents per day cash for unemployed war veterans.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 291, 3 August 1932, Page 5
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