RELIEF MEN STRIKE.
COMMITTEEMEN DISMISSED.
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) INVERCARGILL, Tuesday.
Tw-enty-six men, comprising the majority of those in the Kapuka camp for unemployed, went on strike this morning as a protest against the dismissal by the Public Works Department of the chairman and secretary o* the camp committee for, it is alleged, writing a letter to the Press complaining that conditions at the camp were becoming "absolutely unbearable."
The strikers requested that tho two men should be reinstated, and upon the department refusing, came in a body to Invercargill and interviewed the Mayor. They did not return to the camp.
The Mayor stated later that ho was to meet the , men to-morrow morning, when he hoped to have something definite for them. In the meantime he would see what the department had to say in reply.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 114, 17 May 1933, Page 10
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