ATTITUDE OF BOARD

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 219, 12 June 1933, Page 10

ATTITUDE OF BOARD

Married Men and Camps IN EVENT OF REFUSAL By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, June 11. An intimation that, the rules of the Unemployment Board would be applied and that married men unwilling to go into camp would be considered as voluntarily unemployed was given by Mr. B. T. Bailey, officer-in-charge of the local office of the Labour Department, when a conference to consider the question of compulsion was held on Saturday. Mr. Bailey denied allegations that the unemployment cards of men who would not go to camp had been torn up at the Labour Bureau.

The conference unanimously expressed itself as being opposed to the compulsory element —sustenance or no sustenance—and also urged that the wages and the conditions of the camps should be improved. It was decided to hold a representative meeting of protest. Mr. Bailey has written to the Mayor of Christchurch, Mr. D. G. Sullivan, inviting him to visit the bureau, when he would be permitted to call for the cards alleged to have been destroyed. “If the original cards are produced, then I will expect a public apology to be offered to officers of the bureau,” he wrote. ALLEGATIONS DENIED Officer Asks for Apology By Telegraph.—Press Association. ; Christchurch, June 11. A denial was made yesterday by Mr. B. T. Bailey, officer in charge of the local office of. the Labour Department, to allegations made yesterday at a local bodies’ conference that because certain unemployed married men refused to go to camp their registration cards were torn up by the department’s officials, and that the men were informed no further work would be available for them, Mr. Bailey has written to the Mayor of Christchurch (Mr D G Sullivan) inviting him to visit the bureau, when he would be permitted to call for the cards alleged to have been destroyed. “If the original cards are produced, then I will expect a public apology to be offered to officers of the bureau,” he wrote. 1 ■ '