NOT EVEN FOR LOVE.
POVERTY AND ROMANCE. "London, sept. is.. “Not for the .best man. in the world would I attempt, to 5 keep a. family of eight on 59s a week,” declared Mrs Murray, a member of tlie West Ham Board of Guardians, which, had resisted the Health’s Ministry direction to reduce its outdoor relief dole from. 59s to 555. Seventy thousand indigent persons in West Ham are drawing £200,000 a month in relief, and West Ham ewes the Health Ministry £1,500,000. ! The guardians resent “the unparallelled scurrility, abuse, and charges of prodigality, and have challenged the Ministry to stop relief. If Mr Neville Chamberlain was compelled to live on, 9s 6d relief money weekly, soon the Cabinet would become members of the Communist Party,” say the Guardians.
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Shannon News, 2 October 1925, Page 3
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129NOT EVEN FOR LOVE. Shannon News, 2 October 1925, Page 3
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