UNEMPLOYMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1927, Page 10

UNEMPLOYMENT

OMINOUS THREAT DEMONSTRATION DURING ROYAL VISIT (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") CHEISTCHURCH, This Day. A throat that a demonstration of vi • employed would take place on tho arrival of tho Duke and Duchess of York in Christchurch was made by Mr. E. L. Hill at a meeting of tlj* unemployed yesterday. He said that unless work was available immediately the work offered before the Eoyal visit would bo refused and a mass demonstration would take place at the railway station. During his speech Mr. Hill attacked the North Canterbury Hospital and Charitable Aid.Board's relief policy. The board would not give more than one day's work if it could possibly hell) it. The. men were not given the actual cash, but the equivalent in kind, and had to do a day's work for it. Tho 'kind" never included meat, but consisted mostly of .porridge, sa^o; and nee. He asked if a man could keep himself and his dependants on 12s Cd or 15s a week? It would not last more than two daya. Mr. W. S. Wharton, tho board's secretary, had told him that there was plenty of work in the country for single men and married men too. "I have been right through tho country from Ashburton up and there is no work offering," he said Tl'° following motions were carried- — That we, the unemployed, call upon the organised workers of the Dominion to get behind the unemployed ,in their demand for adequate wages, or, failing that, adequate Government maintenance; and that.three members be appointed as a deputation to wait on the Trades Hall secretaries and to uree them to demand that the Government policy "° Carry °U itS' ' ilnulig™tion