Love on the Dole
by Ronald Gow, Walter Greenwood

The older folks in the Hardcastle family are unwillingly used to poverty; they still stubbornly believe that business will improve.

But the young people are restless; in between, the young men and the young women do not obligingly wait for trade to turn the corner.

Sally waits for Larry until he is killed in a labor parade.

Her brother and his girl have to marry on the meager pittance of poorhouse relief.

After six months of hopelessness Sally goes to keep house for a wealthy man who can support her.

That is the only way out for her and the broken family.