SQUANDERMANIA.
Poor Relief That Fostered Strike. AMAZING REVELATIONS. LONDON, March 9. How the Socialist guardians of Clies-ter-le-Street, Durham—the majority of whom are miners' officials, miners and their wives—spent public funds during the coalmining dispute is the subject of amazing allegations by the Government Commission which was appointed to replace the guardians on account of their maladministration. In the course of its report the commission says: "With the assistance of the trades unions the sympathisers wuli the miners took over the administration of the town at the commencement of the dispute. ''They incurred a- debt of £175,000. They also dismissed officials for refusing to make illegal relief payments. "Otherwise honest people were degraded and corrupted. The administration of the guardians between May and August, 1926, was simply a maintenance of the persons engaged in the industrial dispute by the trades unions out of public money."
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 58, 10 March 1927, Page 7
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