UNEMPLOYED WORKERS

Evening Star, Issue 21450, 29 June 1933, Page 11

UNEMPLOYED WORKERS

A mass meeting of relief workers was held in the Bijou Hall on Tuesday evening. * Mr M. O’Rorke was elected chairman, on the vote of an audience of over 300. and Air J. Spence secretary. After the purpose of the mooting was explained, it was moved that the secretary write to the St Kildti and Northeast Valley Unemployed Associations, with a view to getting united action over the payment for wot weather, also to the Rev.' E, T. Cox, requesting that he should have Dunedin brought up to the same level as Wellington, where tiie men were paid for the lull day if it was considered too wet to work.

To press the m;itier further the following deputation was appointed to interview the local Unemployment Committee on Friday morning :—Messrs MacArthur, Geddes, Townlcy. Seidland. Herring, and Mesdames Reeves, Parke, and Bonrdmnn. The following resolution was carried unanimously : “ That a mass meeting of women be hold in the Bijou Hall on Thursday evening, at 7 o’clock, for the purpose of electing representatives to the Anticamp Council, in order to strengthen the protest against men being forced into camps.” Addresses were then delivered by Air G. Herring, Mrs Reeves, and Mrs Townley on the ‘ Camp Scheme and Wet Weather.’ After this the meeting closed.