MEETING OF PROTEST
UNFAIR DISCRIMINATION [Per United Press WELLNGTON, January 18. Fully three thousand people attended a largo meeting in the Town Hall and passed a resolution > protesting against*; (a) the proposed unfair discrimination by the Unemployment Board against certain relief workers over fifty years of age and their dependent wives and children; (b) the proposed deficient
sustenance* scale suggested* by -the Unemployment Board for such relief workers and their families; (c) the inadequate allowances being paid, to . relief workers who are on sustenance rates at present; and (d) _ the curtailment of supplementary rations for relief workers* ’* "■ * ■ ’ ' ' Several vigorous speeches were delivered. Mr R. Semple, M.P., said that animals in the Zoo were "surer of their; food and shelter. Not long ago considerable sums of money had been spent in Wellington on a monkey cage and a bear cage; but if he had his way, he would sentence the- members of the Unemployment Board to three month# with the bear. * *, ,
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Evening Star, Issue 21622, 18 January 1934, Page 11
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160MEETING OF PROTEST Evening Star, Issue 21622, 18 January 1934, Page 11
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