[Mrs Stansfield] to Maidie

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  • Reference
    • GB 106 9/26/270
  • Former Reference
    • GB 106 ALC/4283
  • Dates of Creation
    • 20 Jan 1922
  • Physical Description
    • 1 item

Scope and Content

Telling her about the dispute with the unemployed in Reading about the reduction in the scale of benefits. After the meeting where the new scale was passed she had to walk through 'a hooting, swearing, threatening mob' of unemployed. The crowd followed her home and she received a deputation of three who asked her to resign but she refused and finally they went off.