POLICY OF GO-SLOW

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 69, 14 December 1932, Page 10

POLICY OF GO-SLOW

Auckland Relief Workers MEN BLAME CUT IN PAY By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Dec. 13. The assertion that a “go slow” policy is being followed by the members of the fifty-three branches of the Auckland Provincial Unemployed Workers’ Association was made to-day by the president of the association, Mr. F. Lark. He said that the policy was decided on a week ago at a meeting of the national executive of the unemployed. Following the 10 per cent, cut in re-' lief pay, said Mr. Lark, the men decided that, rather than let their wives and families feel the operation of the cut, w’hich last week amounted to four shillings off the wages of married men, they would go short and work according to their strength. Hence the “go slow” policy. Men could only work in proportion to the amount of food they got. Inquiries of local bodies failed to establish that the policy is fully operative, although last night the relief workers of a suburban town board officially notified the board that they intended to adopt the policy until sustenance was granted and the recent cut restored. NORMAL IN WELLINGTON Labour Department and City Council officers said last evening that they had not heard of any intention to “go slow” on Wellington relief works.

Relief workers on the city and suburban jobs were working under normal condition's yesterday.