"OPEN WARFARE."

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 183, 4 August 1932, Page 3

"OPEN WARFARE."

RELIEF WORKERS ON FARMS

MASS MEETING AT MASTERTON.

"Open warfare on the Masterton County Council's scheme for providing unemployed men with farm work on properties adjacent to Masterton," was declared by a mass meeting of 300 relief workers. It was agreed that a deputation should wait upon the Unemployment Board regarding the scheme, and if the outcome of this deputation is not satisfactory to the men a secret ballot will probably be taken on the question of striking. It was decided to continue to declare the scheme black. An offer from the Unemployment Board to increase the rates of pay on the scheme to :?7/t> for men with three or more children was unfavourably received. "The eyes of New Zealand are on Masterton relief workers in this matter," declared Mr. P. Shaw, secretary of the Masterton Self-help Club. If the local body here can make Its own arrangements with the Unemployment Board it means that all local bodies in the Dominion will join hands and do the same thing. "This is open warfare between the Masterton County Council and the relief workers, and they know it." The meeting decided to strike a levy of 1/ per working day on all married relief workers, and 1/ a week on all single men to' assist the men who could not get relief work.