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...live is a grimy, normally noisy district. For more than a year now Falls Road has been uncomfortably quiet. One after another Belfast's shipyards and mills have been laying off more & more men, shutting down. Of Belfast's 425,000 souls, 100,000 are on the dole. Pale men in cloth caps lounge in doorways, waiting for the visits of relief workers...
...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...
Last week President Hoover had a Relief Bill he could sign. Speaker Garner had his Masses v. Classes campaign issue. The needy had what the White House would have denounced last year as a $300,000,000 Federal "dole." Reconstruction Finance Corp. had an increase of $1,800,000,000 in its capital. Private industry and individuals had an oblique chance to borrow from the Government. Taxpayers had a peephole through which to identify R. F. C. borrowers. And the country at large had a four-month rest from Congress...
...condemning the Wilson Administration for having given the Allied nations nearly all the money the American taxpayers owned and asking not even a definite promise to pay? Is he going to lift that burden his chieftain placed on American taxpayers? Is the new deal to be a dole . . . or some form of bureaucratic collectivism? . . . The Governor may be honestly trying to give us a new deal but he is dealing from the same old deck from which William Jennings Bryan gave the American people so many 'new deals'. . . . Beware, Governor! Mr. McAdoo, Mr. Hearst and Speaker Garner may have stacked...
...Reduced by 23% the national unemployment dole...