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STRIKING SAILORS.

Make Demand To Congress For £250,000,000.

Press Association—Copyright. Washington, January 12.

The vanguard of what threatens to develop ino an army of 200,000 striking sailors arrived at Washington to-day, and several dozen pickets, representing the ImernaUgnai Seamen’s Union, from Baltimore, paced in front of the Department of Commerce building carrying placards protesting against the “antiLabour'’ features of the Copeland Maritime Act.

Meanwhile the capital prepared for oftier. protestors when it was. announced that two special trains

carrying New York’s contingent of 1000 Works Progress Administration marchers would arrive at Washington on Thursday night to join the jobless persons from other parts of the nation to demand that Congress should appropriate £250,000,000 to meet relief costs.

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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 332, 13 January 1937, Page 5

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STRIKING SAILORS. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 332, 13 January 1937, Page 5

STRIKING SAILORS. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 332, 13 January 1937, Page 5

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