UNEMPLOYED WORKERS
RELIEF WAGE SCALE
DEDUCTIONS OPPOSED
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Eveniny Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. A decision to cease work on all unemployment relief jobs from to-day as a protest against the action of the Government in reducing the rate of pay from 14s a day for all relief workers to 12s 6d a day for married men and 9s a day for single men was reached at a crowded meeting last evening Jield under the auspices of the Unemployed Workers' Movement. The following resolution was carried: — "That this mass meeting of unemployed workers and relief workers resolves that they will not break the conditions of the workers by accepting the starvation wage of 12s 6d and 9s, and we call on all relief workers on all jobs to immediately down tools. We furthermore call upon the officials of organised Labour to call a meeting at once to decide what action they will take to support this action of ours."
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 77, 1 April 1931, Page 12
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162UNEMPLOYED WORKERS Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 77, 1 April 1931, Page 12
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