UNEMPLOYMENT IN WELLINGTON

Evening Star, Issue 20996, 9 January 1932, Page 16

UNEMPLOYMENT IN WELLINGTON

FACED WITH STARVATION [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, January 9. Following a meeting of unemployed this morning a large body of men went to the newspaper offices with a view of making a public statement on behalf of the men. Two were admitted to the premises of the ‘ Evening Post ’ (Messrs T. Kelly and L. Parsloe). They said that the position of the relief workers and the unemployed had become intolerable. Rations and relief had been reduced, and now the single men were to get no work after February 13. The men were in a dilemma; they were faced with stairvation. They were being thrown out of their homes and were losing everything they had saved. The men thought that tho period had been reached when tho Unemployment Board could not give work, and that payment of sustenance should be made according to tho provisions of the Act. In view of the winter some hold steps must be taken to provide for men, women, and children, and in lieu of sustenance there should he continuity of work.