WORK REFUSED
WAIMAKARIEI JOB COLLECTION AUTHORISED (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHBISTCHUECH, 4th April. After a long debate, the City Council to-night decided to, allow a street collection to be made, on a date to be fixed, for the relief of distress among "VVaimakariri River Trust workers now pn strike against the conditions of work and the wages offered by the Unemployment Board. A condition is that the amount. collected is to be paid to the City Treasurer, to be administered by the Mayor for .the benefit of people for whom the money is raised. The application came to the council through the Bylaws and Finance Oomniittee, which had received a letter from the strikers' committee of action asking permission to take up a collection for ' the men's strike fund. The committee recommended that the request be granted. The motion was amended on the suggestion x of the Mayor," Mr. D. G. Sullivan, M.P. During the debate the Labour members of the council declared that the men were not on strike. They had merely refused to accept 37s 6d for five days' Work. They had not been atwork, and therefore they conld not be on strike. Permission was granted without a division being taken.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 80, 5 April 1932, Page 10
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202WORK REFUSED Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 80, 5 April 1932, Page 10
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