MORE RELIEF PAY

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 123, 18 February 1935, Page 10

MORE RELIEF PAY

Palmerston Demand PETITION TO MINISTER Palmerston North, February 16. An all-round increase of 10/- a week in the wages paid to relief workers was sought by a large deputation of members of the Palmerston. North branch of the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement, which wfc'ted on the Unemployment Board's certifying officer, Mr. W. 11. Cadwallader, this morning. The deputation presented Mr. Cadwallader with a letter which it requested him to forward on to the Minister of Employment. The letter contained the following resolution: “That this meeting of unemployed and their wives enters an emphatic protest against the action of the Government and the Unemployment Board in inflicting cuts on men with 11 wife and one child. We demand that the cuts be restored immediately to the men concerned. Realising that the new scale of relief and sustenance is totally insufficient. to provide the necessary food, clothing and shelter, this meeting demands that the Government and the Un-, employment Board cease the practice of building np a surplus in the unemployment fund at our expense and immediately increase all payments by 10/- weekly.” Th<> letter was accompanied by a petition bearing 641 signatures, which, it was stated by a member of the depute tion, were those of 95 per eent. of tiie relief workers in Palmerston North. z Mr. Cadwallader undertook to submit (lie petition and a covering letter together with a verbatim report of the speeches to the Minister by to-day's mail.