BELIEF WORKERS

Evening Star, Issue 19616, 23 July 1927, Page 4

BELIEF WORKERS

LABOR'S “GA GAHNY" ADVICE / [Fko.m Our Parliamentary ILroKTEB.} WELLINGTON, July 22. The attention of Parliament was drawn by Mr Tapley (Dunedin North) to-day to somo extraordinary advice Riven relief wage workers by Mr Janies Roberts, of the Alliance of Labor. The member asked the Prime Minister if ho had seen an article in the New Zealand 'Worker,* written by Mr Roberts, to j the effect that Government subsidies to local bodies’ relief works were made on condition that the wages paid should be 12s to married men and Os to single j men ; and that, in the same article, the writer declared that he made no apology for advising workers to limit their work to the amount of pav received. | ■ The Prime Minister replied that his ! attention had been drawn to the article, i and he wished to contradict the suggestion that the Government subsidy was conditional on 12s and Os per day being paid to married and single men respectively. This was without foundation. Ho added that at the deputation regarding unemployed the day following tin’s article, Mr Roberts stated that it had been rumored that men on relief jobs had declared that they would not give more than nine shillings’ worth of work for 8s ■ pay, and that he heartily agreed with that view. Mr P. Fraser (Wellington Central); Did he suggest some other method? The question was repeated by the member, but the Prime Minister did not reply. ■ _____