WORKLESS IN WINTER.
APPEAL TO PREMIER. "THE STOMACH AND SOCIALISM." (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) TE AROHA, this day. The following telegram—copies of which are also to 'be sent to Mr. C. E. Macmillan, member for Tauranga, and Mr. A. M. Samuel, memher for Ohinemuri—has been sent to the Prime Minister from a meeting of discharged employees of the Piako County Council, held at Wairongomai yesterday: — "The late employees of the Piako County Council wish to draw your attention to the council's action in 'sacking' all hands, approximately 150 men. This means that the men will be out of work in mid-winter. Eighty per cent of these are married men with wives, and there are over 75 young children to maintain. The balance of single men are returned soldiers. We understand that the Piako county chairman is coming to interview you next week, and we are asking you, as our Prime Minister, to do your utmost to get all hands employed again as speedily as possible, as an empty stomach breeds socialism."
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 152, 29 June 1926, Page 14
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170WORKLESS IN WINTER. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 152, 29 June 1926, Page 14
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