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Relief in the Depression!Mr. Danowski

+Five Cent Piece

King said that he wouldn’t give a “five-cent piece” to help any Conservative provincial government fight unemployment.

As a response, unemployed workers threw wooden nickels at King on the campaign trail, they were outraged

In the election of 1930: Bennett beat King with a majority

+Seeking Relief

Needed to find ways to support themselves Door-to-door salespeople Work for food

Impossible to meet their daily needs

1933: 1.4 million Canadians relied on relief Relief: Financial assistance from the government to help support

unemployed citizens, today it is called welfare

Suffered: Young people, unskilled workers, small business owners, farmers, and working women

+Women’s Rights

1930s: Unacceptable for woman to take jobs away from men

Result: men got jobs in female occupations such as teaching and secretarial work

+To be Eligible to Obtain Relief Payments:

1. Prove that you are not able to support yourself and that no relative can help

2. Be a man supporting a family.

3. Have been a resident of the municipality for at least one year before applying

4. Turn in your liquor permit

5. Turn in your automobile license plates and driver’s license

6. Remove telephone from your house

7. Register at the unemployment office (to show your willingness to work)

8. Work on municipal projects from time to time

9. Allow relief office investigators to come to your home to check on these rules

+Bennett Buggies and Bennett Burghs

Buggies: Take the engines out of their cars and horses would pull them, no gas and cheaper

Burghs: rundown shacks of unemployed people

+Meanwhile… in the USA

President Franklin D. Roosevelt launched the New Deal Series of radical and social reforms aimed at providing relief

and economic recovery

1935: Bennett announced his “New Deal” Supported unregulated capitalism now needed economic

overhaul New social programs, unemployment insurance and

minimum wage

+Bennett’s Response

Ending the Depression: “New Deal”

Set aside millions of dollars for emergency relief and increased tariffs on imported goods Did little to reverse the country’s economy

Blamed for indecisive and ineffective

+Responding to the “New Deal”

It was too late for Bennett

Liberal campaign slogan: “King or Chaos!”

Voters chose King in a majority, 173 Liberal seats to 40 Conservative seats