Word: joblessness
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...Threats of another march on Washington were made by a delegation of jobless seamen who called at the White House to ask for a $1 per day dole...
...dozen years. He learned political strategy under Speaker Joseph Gurney (''Uncle Joe'') Cannon who made him a trusted henchman. In 1908 he stepped out of the House to be beaten for the Indiana governorship by Thomas Riley Marshall, later Democratic vice president. Politically jobless, he reverted to law, became a lobbyist for the American Manufacturers Association. In 1913 the House investigators of the A. M. A. lobby publicly flayed him for capitalizing on his personal Congressional contacts. Laughing off a scandal which would have buried a less brazen politician, he wriggled into the Senate...
Within 24 hours swift British justice sentenced 50 mobsmen and four mobs-women to pay a fine of 40 shillings each ($6.80) or spend a fortnight in jail. Meanwhile a new danger threatened. From industrial centres all over England, Scotland and Wales thousands of jobless men were stubbornly walking toward London, lashed by high winds, whipped by pelting rain. Called "dupes of Moscow" by the London Press, these marchers will try to see the Prime Minister this week and on Nov. 1 will send a "Committee of Fifty" who will try to reach the Houses of Parliament bearing a petition...
Last week the lid blew off. Aroused, so the police said, by relief workers' complaints at their own meager salaries, a mob of 10,000 jobless poured out of the Falls Road district and marched on the city poorhouse in an effort to force the Ulster government to increase their dole. A gang of toughs discovered a Free State truck loaded with cases of Guinness's stout from Dublin. In no time the air was thick with stout bottles. Store windows were smashed, dairies and greengrocers looted, bonfires lighted. Hand to hand fighting broke out at several places...
Observers, scanning similar (though less grave) riot reports from Birmingham, Birkenhead. Croydon and other centres concluded that as winter comes the British jobless are getting mass-ugly, losing what trust they had in the MacDonald National Government, turning again to the British Labor Party which last week held its annual congress (see below...