RELIEF STRIKE.
ASHBURTON WORKERS' ATTITUDE. NOT PREPARED AT PRESENT. "Relief workers generally in Ashburton are at present not prepared to go on strike,' said Mr H. A. Knight (president of the Ashburton Relief Workers' Union) when speaking to a representative of the "Guardian" on the proposal of the National Unemployed Workers' Movement that . a strike should commence on Monday.
"However, should the occasion arise, they will "undoubtedly make a move/' he added. "The continued low allocations are pointing in that direction." The Ashburton Union is affiliated with the National Unemployed Union, which is an organisation distinct from the National Unemployed Workers' Movement, and it has so far received no instructions from the parent body. The continued non-committal attitude of this body "is causing a certain amount of dissatisfaction among the workers, and many of them consider that it should cease "sitting on the fence." Both the National Movement and the National Union have combined to set up a United Council of Action in the various provinces for the purpose of organising such actions as strikes, and it was this Council which requested the Ashburton Union to take a- .ballot on the subject of a strike. However, the Ashburton Union declined to do so.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 95, 1 February 1934, Page 4
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