REFUSING WORK IN OWN TRADE
PHASE OF RELIEF JOBS [Per Uniteb Press Association.] WELLINGTON, December 13. At a meeting of the Johnsonville Town Board, on the _ motion of the chairman, it was decided to empower the chairman of the Work Committee to refuse work to men who turn down the labour allotted to them. The motion arose from a report that a certain section of the unemployed relief workers would refuse work in their own trades. It was stated that a little skilled trade work is required to keep relief workers in labour, and that the board is unable to pay award rates for skilled workmen.
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Evening Star, Issue 21284, 13 December 1932, Page 9
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106REFUSING WORK IN OWN TRADE Evening Star, Issue 21284, 13 December 1932, Page 9
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