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Request for financial assistance for unemployed women, deserted wives and widows – letter to Prime Minister James Scullin
Contents of a letter to Prime Minister James Scullin.
[Stamped in red ink ‘PRIME MINISTERS DEPT’, ‘JUL 18 1930’, with handwritten reference number ‘502/3’ and initials ‘A.L.’]
[Stamped in purple ink ’20 JULY 1930’.]
Trades Hall
Sydney
July 1930th [sic]
[Stamped in purple ink:] 17 JULY 1930
The Right Hon J.H. Scullin
Prime Minister
Commonwealth of Australia
Dear Sir
I have been instructed by the above Committee to ask your consideration of the following Resolution.
“That the Prime Minister be asked to make it mandatory that a certain portion of the £1,000,000 to assist unemployed be earmarked to assist unemployed women workers, deserted wives, and widows.”