RELIEF WORKS STRIKE.
MEN AT TWO CAMPS IDLE. ONLY NINETEEN CONTINUE. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 7. Of 260 unemployed men in two camps at the Ashley Paver protective works, only 19 were working to-day. The others had all joined in the strike or, as the men themselves describe it, refusal to work. The men were to have begun work yesterday under the new full-time contract system, and the men’s action is a protest against the prices quoted for the work which they consider too low. The men working today were all blacksmiths and carpenters. The men still remain at the camps. Although the men say that they cannot make 12s a day' at the rates allowed, the engineer-in-charge, Mr R. Mclntyre, said to-day that any man of average ability working industriously could without difficulty earn 12s a day. It would be possible, and lie thought this reasonable, for good men to make considerably more than 12s. Over a four-weekly period, those men who benefited least under the new scheme would be nearly £5 better oh at 12s a day than at the old rates. Some of the men were willing, even anxious, to work, but had been persuaded by others to refuse the conditions.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 73, 8 January 1936, Page 8
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