Word: joblessness
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What English constables call their "truncheons" became clubs with a vengeance last week as jobless men were beaten back and down in London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Birkenhead, Croydon, Westham and North Shields by what Victorian novelists used to call "the arm of the law in blue...
...workers battled with bottles. In London a smart Bobby dodged a bottle-blow, let it knock out Out-of-Worker James Cunningham. Into the breach as James Cunningham went down stepped Rev. J. C. Putterill, prominent social reformer. "Come on men!" he roared and led 3,000 jobless on a window-smashing spree through the London district of Stratford...
...North Shields, police first blocked a jobless march on the offices of the Public Assistance Committee. Thwarted, the marchers tried to hold a public meeting in the public street. When constables charged with drawn truncheons a well-aimed bottle caught a constable full in the left eye, sent him hurrying to hospital while the truncheon charge went on, dispersed the jobless, but not for long...
...President Hoover held another relief conference at the White House last week to mobilize private charity to carry the jobless through another winter. In 1930 he set up for this purpose an organization headed by Col. Arthur Woods. Last year Walter Sherman Gifford (American Telephone & Telegraph) was drafted by the White House for relief duty. This year Newton Diehl Baker is chairman of the Welfare & Relief Mobilization Conference composed of 29 organizations like the Y M. C. A., the Salvation Army, the Boy Scouts, the Camp Fire Girls, the Association of Community Chests & Councils, the Jewish Welfare Board. Mr. Baker...
...Flushing, L. I. William Henry Joseph Tubbs, 32, jobless & penniless, was ordered from his wife's parents' home when a bad check charge was about to overtake him. Before he disappeared, he killed his six-year-old son asleep in a crib...