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...House, the packed galleries listened breathlessly. Everyone knew the gist of what he had to say. To save his country, the little Chancellor was about to saddle Britain, heaviest taxed nation on earth, with great additional burdens. Everyone knew that the Dole was to be cut 10%. Everyone knew that the wages of all government servants were to be slashed. Everyone knew that the income tax was to be raised. But how much...
Seethings. Not all Britons took their new burdens as quietly as Chancellor Snowden suggested. Outside the Houses of Parliament little groups collected under their ringleaders shouting in unison "One, two three? HANDS OFF THE DOLE!" and "One, two, three?WE STAND FOR THE WORKING CLASSES, DOWN WITH THE RULING CLASSES!" British bobbies did not charge but nudged them out of the square...
...sent $5,000 for the Government's emergency fund. An unknown workman sent $6, half his week's pay. From Yorkshire came a pencilled postcard: "Come to Yorkshire and we will find thee a seat in the Commons. All York shire labor is proud of you. The dole has been much abused and we workers are tired of keeping those who will not work. . . . Yorkshire likes pluck." Leaking Secrets. British financial bills are always closely guarded state secrets until dead in Parliament. But last week there were many leaks. The stockmarket rose slightly on news that there would...
...Charles Burnett Buckworth-Herne-Soame succeeded to a baronetcy fortnight ago and last week applied for unemployment insurance-the first British baronet on the Dole...
...vast subject in a few sentences and deposits a polished idea in the public mind. Such a statement appeared last week in the newspapers of seven big U. S. cities, written by Alvan Macauley, president of Packard Motor Car Co. He posed the question, "A Dollar For Dole-Or An Hour Of Work?", a question looming larger & larger before the country as the convening of Congress approaches. Mr. Macauley found the root of Depression in the unemployed dollar, "the dollar that is afraid to venture forth. . . . When the slacker dollar goes to work, men will go to work...