RELIEF WORKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 130, 3 June 1936, Page 10

RELIEF WORKS

WET WEATHER CLAUSE

"ANTI-LABOUR FORCES"

The adjustment of relief rates has led to certain anomalies and while some of these have been adjusted others are still under consideration. Difficulties connected with the "wet weather" clause have led to a meeting being called by a section of the relief workers in Wellington. Mr. P. M. Butler, who has always taken an interest in improving relief conditions, has received an invitation to be present at the meeting but has replied declining.

"The Government and the Minister (of Labour) can be relied upon to do the right thing," Mr. Butler stated in his reply, "and to carry out their election pledges to relief workers, and I refuse to assist any anti-Labour forces who strive to make capital out of anomalies that may have been created in attempts to amend the conditions of the relief workers. The relief workers who assisted the Government into office can rest assured that any apparent injustice will be rectified by the Minister, and they should not allow themselves to be carried away by the condemnations of those who have always opposed the Labour movement." GOVERNMENT TO MAKE UP TIME A statement that the Government had decided to make up full time to relief workers in cases in which, through no fault of their own, they had lost time was made by the Minister of Labour (the Hon. H. T. Armstrong) today.