REFUSE TO SIGN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 374, 8 November 1932, Page 7

REFUSE TO SIGN

AUSTRALIAN UNEMPLOYED BURN NEW DOLE FORMS. Newcastle, Saturday. Planning to lay siege to the dole depots on Monday, if they are refused rations, following the recent "questionnaire bonfires," coalfields unemployed announced to-night that they will answer any attempt at diseiplinary action by "camping on the doorsteps" with' their families, until the Government submits. Determined to fight to the last ditch, the miners say they will on no account sign the forms, and the authorities, it is reported, are just as determined ona policy of "no forms no rations." | Soup Kitchens? _ Possibility of a return to the soup- , kitchen that sprang up overnight, 1 during the recent "dole-strike" for open dockets, looms with to-night's announcement, and th'e police are closely watching the situation. They will repulse the proposed attempt of the( miners to camp at the depot. sites should their dole be refused as is expected, when they present themselves— without question- | naires — on Monday. j Affecting many thousands of coal- : fields unemployed, the position is a j serious one for all concerned. To-day at a conference the commitJ tee of the United Front movement decided to recommend to the unemployed throughout the Newcastle and Lake Shire areas that they follow the example of the other miners and hurn their forms.