RELIEF WORKERS.
STRIKE MOVEMENT ENDING
POSITION IN WELLINGTON
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)
WELLINGTON, this day.
Arrangements were discussed yesterday by relief work strikers with a view to'waiting upon the Minister of Employment, the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, in company with representatives ot the Alliance of Labour and the Trades and Labour Council, presumably to place before the Minister representations on behalf of the strikers. Two mass meetings were held at the Trades Hall during the day. . Figures supplied from an omcial source showed 1408 men working yesterday out of a total of 2250 for whom jobs had been allocated. Since the beginning of April, 130 single men have gone into camps from Wellington. It is estimated about 7-50 single men. refused to go into camp, and consequently have not been given work.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 116, 18 May 1932, Page 9
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