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Last week, 2,000 unemployed War veterans, laborers and women swarmed into the Government Offices and broke a glass-framed portrait-- over the head of Premier Sir Richard Anderson Squires.

A blow to the jaw silenced bleeding Sir Richard as he was about to address his assailants. He listened quietly while they demanded an increase in Newfoundland's dole, "or we'll pick you up, Sir Richard, and throw you out of that third-story window! And we want more food for the needy too!"

Completely cowed, His Majesty's Prime Minister of Newfoundland telephoned to the Dole Bureau and other Government agencies as his orders, the orders dictated to him by the 2,000. He granted all their demands.

Drawing and munching their increased dole, Newfoundlanders scoffed at rumors of "a British man-o'-war" supposed to have been asked for by Sir Richard. If British sailors mutinied when their own pay was cut last year (TiME, Sept. 28) would they fire on Newfoundland's unemployed?

In St. Johns two days later an unemployed man walked up to Sir Richard Squires, seized the Premier's pipe, stuck it in his own mouth and walked off smoking, unmolested. Pipeless Sir Richard too walked off unmolested (by a crowd of the unemployed who cheered the pipe-stealer).

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