“SADISTIC” STRIKES
Unemployed’s View The spectacle of wage-earn-ers being forced into voluntary unemployment through strikes was something many hundreds of compulsorily unemployed would find very difficult to comprehend, the secretary of the Canterbury Organisation for the Unemployed (Mr G. M. Edmonds) said yesterday. “If those who crack the whip behind the herds of voluntarily unemployed workers striking for higher wages had shown as much militant concern over increased benefits for the compulsorily unemployed and other social security beneficiaries, their present actions might at least be condoned on the ground of consistency,” he said. “As it is, our organisation is too busy trying to assist unemployed families with sufficient food, clothing, fuel and whatever comfort our meagre resources will permit to sympathise with sadistic tendencies to increase the cost of living,” he said.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31730, 13 July 1968, Page 1
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