AGITATION FAILS

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 27, 2 February 1932, Page 8

AGITATION FAILS

RELIEF WORKERS' STRIKE. MEN RETURNING TO JOBS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. In spite of the strenuous, efforts of some of the relief workers from Petoue, Lower Hutt, and Eastbourne to persuade the city's unemployed to strike for standard wages, in no instance where a ballot has been taken has the strike proposal been favoured. Several strike promoters visited some of the city works to-day. A fairly large crowd of strike sympathisers was present and several police were in attendance. The strike leaders called without avail upon the men to stop work. Ballots were taken on various jobs and revealed an overwhelming number against a strike. An executive member of the United Workers' Movement, addressing a meeting on a vacant section in Cuba Street, declared the proposed strike in the city was off until a later date, owing to tbe lack of solidarity among the working classes. Arrangements have been made to reopen to-morrow all the relief works in the Hutt Valley and Eastbourne, which were held up by strikers demanding standard wages. It is expected that the work will be resumed, as a number of men have already indicated their intention of returning.