Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 2 November 1934
Unemployed’s Demands
At the monthly meeting of Conisboro’ Urban Council a deputation was received from the local unemployed’s organisation asking for extra winter relief. Increases at Sheffield were cited. Representatives of the local Public Assistance Committee were invited to meet the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement at Denaby last night, to say whether the requests were to be granted, but failed to do so, and as a result a mass demonstration is to be made in the next week or so.
There was a large gathering at last night’s meeting, and chief among the topics discussed were the new Unemployment Bill, which comes into operation in the new year, and the “slave camps.”
The chairman, Mr. J. Wright, said the local movement were determined to force the P.A.C. to help them. Their demands were fully justified. There would be no appeal to the new Unemployment Board. After January it would be utterly impossible to obtain increases. “Slave camps,” he said, affected both young and old. They were determined that no man of their area should enter such a camp, but would receive full support in his stand against them. The idea was coming from Germany, and the conditions there to-day were entirely due to the workers themselves.