LONDON UNEMPLOYED.
OUTRAGEOUS DEMANDS. DOLES AND IDLENESS. Br Telegraph .—-Press Assn —Copyright London, August 31. Thousands of the workless in Shoreditch. Hackney and Holborn to-day marched to their respective Boards of Guardians to demand adequate relief. Woolwich unemployed interpret adequate relief at 25s weekly each for a man and wife and 8s per child, additional to all rent.
When the guardians refused the demands thousands of workless threatened to enter the workhouses.
The Shoreditch guardians offered husband and wife 30s a week jointly, of which one-third would be in kind, also 5s for each child, with no deductions on account of pensions or other sources of income, and no relief to exceed 60s weekly.
The unemployed unanimously refused the offer on the ground that it was utterly inadequate. Owing to these doles, many Londoners who usually go hop-picking in August and September are refusing to go to the hop fields.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1921, Page 5
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150LONDON UNEMPLOYED. Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1921, Page 5
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