WORK REFUSED.
9 WAIPUKURAtT UNEMPLOYED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WAIPUKURAU, Tuesday. The Waipukurau Unemployment and Employed Association, at a special meeting attended by over 60 men, resolved unanimously to refuse to recommend its members to accept the work offered by the Unemployment Board, scrub-pulling at Aohanga station, and expressed strong resentment at the threat accompanying the notice, "which, if carried out, is tantamount to taking necessary sustenance from respectable men, their wives and children." Aohanga is in the Akitio coastal area, about 100 miles from Waipukurau, via Pahiatua. It was further resolved that the provincial council of the Unemployed Work'ers. Movement be notified that a 5 action had been taken without Waipukurau's consent, the Waipukurau Association no longer had connection with them. The provincial council had previously been affiliated with the National Council of Unemployed Workers,
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 204, 30 August 1933, Page 10
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135WORK REFUSED. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 204, 30 August 1933, Page 10
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