$480,000 to strike fund
PA Wellington Trade unions had given $480,000 to the Kinleith strike fund so far, the Federation of Labour’s annual conference was told yesterday. The fund’s treasurer (Mr M. Watts) said $410,000 of this amount had been paid out: $270,000 in food vouchers, $13,000 for milk, $22,000 in cash payments, and $105,000 to pay the bills of jobless workers. Another $15,000 had gone to the Thames Valley Electric Power Board, which had refused to help the workers. “They were cutting off power right, left, and centre,” said Mr Watts. Some people affected by the strike were still in desperate need and more money might be needed other than the $70,000 left in the fund. The F.O.L.’s president (Mr W. J. Knox) said the response from unions to the appeal for funds for the Kinleith workers had been the greatest he had ever seen in a dispute. Two Rotorua auditors were watching how’ the money was handled and when a final report from them was available it would be checked also by the F.O.L. itself.
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