RELIEF WORKERS' STRIKE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 78, 2 April 1931, Page 8

RELIEF WORKERS' STRIKE

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Hotel-ring to the reported strike of relief workers because of the reduction in rate of pay reminds one of the old a.dugc\ "biting oil one's nose to spite one's face." Apparently some people do not yet realise that abnormal conditions are ruling all over the world. They expect some supernatural power to intervene and produce wealth from empty coffers, but I fear that even if manna did fall from Heaven, aomo would reject it because it was not quite fresh enough! *■ Two months ago my husband .lost his position, but he did not apply to the Kelief Board. He walked the city and got a job, which by dint of hard work he' hopes to keep. The.wage he earns puts us right on" the bread-line, and I don't mind admitting that I hate to pay his hardly earned 7s 6d.to help support men who cry for a whole loaf and refuse to accept the half offered. If some of the expressed opinions of the Labour Party during the present session are an index of their actions if they had the power, then lot every woman pray (and vote, too) that the Labour Party does not get. the power to let New Zealand go to her ruin as poor Australia is doing. While the re-, lief workers are on strike I suppose their wives can go out washing or appeal to charitable aids.—l am, etc., A MERE WOMAN.