RIYER TRUST RELIEF WORKERS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20510, 1 April 1932, Page 13

RIYER TRUST RELIEF WORKERS.

' TO TH3 EDITOR OF THE. PRESS. Sir,—No doubt many of the Unemployed readers of The Press would be interested to hear your remarks under the Reading of "River Trust Rejief Workers.'' Personally I have always believed 'that the strike could do no one any good, and I have seen the appalling results of strikes in Great Britain, e.g., the General Strike, cotton, woollen, and coal trade strikes. 1 We always' believed that any differences can be settled by a conference of both sides;' and-a good example of this eta* be seen, in the boot and shoe industry in England, in which there has ndfc been a strike for over 20 years, '•But to rajr mind the practice of the unemployed- has become unbearable. First of all,* to cut down expenses, the rate of pay was cut down from 14s per day to -12s 6d for married men, 9s per day. single men, plus a stand down Week every fourth week. This gives the maximum ttites of pay to be £2 10s, 37s 6d, and 18s for four, three, and two-day men, but the' Unemployment ! Board has slowly but surely cut down 'f? even these rates of paj by cutting down a the 'allocation, until, to quote one exjample in tW borough of New Brighton, "jf the ' fbuV-day men. get 2i days per;i veefe. three-day men two days, and the -im £ "o4d "day ' now and a^ife, to'fkeep him quiet, plus, ot "cdurSe,' t£o week. j • ciauot .pay rent, lighting, food ...•on tfiip amount. Even the worin will ".turn, -antf in this case the worm is the ' relief .worker, who has enough common -i&ue'left to see that the* new rates ot 'payßeing" offered 4 by the Unemployment Board, through the River Trust, are only the'beginning and not the end.. It ths unemployed accept these grates and conditions through necessity, the unemployed and tneir families {will booh be'clothed with a loin cloth L ')jfa ]a Gandhi." Deputations and corto the Minister for Labour J(na Unemployment Board are a waste time'ana paper; as the ariswer boils '{iown to ''the "funds are not available.""; I" should be pleased if any of I your could suggest how the can better their present ''conditions and' at least earn enough ►for,-an existence.—Tours. etc., . . UNEMPLOYED. March 3lst, 1932. - , AC£-~ '• _ ■■