Relief Workers’ Wages
Sir, —Now that a board has been appointed comprising wheat growers and flour millers to look after their own in- ; terests at the public expense; the unemployed board is improving the shining hour by making what is tantamount to a further reduction in' the earnings of relief workers in country districts. The Unemployment Board’s executives in country centres has been notified by the. board that in future all moneys which are not paid to relief workers who have sue- v ceeded in securing private employment for . a day or more shall be retained to the board. Hitherto this money has been ' used by country executives in the form of extra allocation of working time among the remainder of the men, pro rata, as an •offset to the persistent cutting off the allocations by the board. This amounts in reality to a further cut in the wages for country relief workers, and makes the third cut they have suffered quite recently. When wages were first cut the Government maintained that the reductions in wages would be offered by a progressive reduction in the cost of living, but this they seem to be determined to prevent.—l am, etc., J. H. HATTON, Chairman. Unemployed Workers' Committee. Featherston, January 14.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 99, 20 January 1933, Page 11
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209Relief Workers’ Wages Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 99, 20 January 1933, Page 11
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