WORK AT AIRPORT
GISBORNE RESOLUTION
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
GISBORNE, August 28.
A large number of citizens and prominent business people met tonight to discuss the Unemployment Board's refusal to pay standard rates of pay to unemployed on tho £10,000 work to level and improve the Gisbome aerodrome.
After the position had been fully outlined by various speakers, thp following resolution was passed unanimously:—"That this meeting of Gisbome citizens protests against attempts by the Unemployment Board to force unemployed men to work on the airport on tho contract terms and conditions offered, considering tho job to be es-sen-tial and necessary work. Tho Government requires airport grounds for defence purposes, -which we believe to be part of war preparations and cannot under any circumstances bo classed as relief work. We fully support, the demands of the unemployed that the airport job be made standard work and tho men be employed full-time at standard rates."
The motion also demanded tliat the men stood down for refusing work be reinstated oir tho No. 5 scheme.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 51, 29 August 1934, Page 14
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171WORK AT AIRPORT Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 51, 29 August 1934, Page 14
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