UNEMPLOYMENT

Evening Star, Issue 21637, 5 February 1934, Page 11

UNEMPLOYMENT

RESERVES DEPARTMENT The following groups will report for work at 8 a.m. to-morrow: — 369—At Mornington football ground. 229—At Rest Home, Roslyn. VACAR6HEB AT UPPER SHQTOVER Arrangements are being completed for a further group of men to go for ward via Queenstown on Friday next to the Public Works Department road job at Upper Shotover. ■ There are still two vacancies in this group. . Any eligible married man, who is registered at Dunedin, and who desires to accept this work at standard P.W.D. rates, should apply to the Labour Bureau immediately. AGAINST STRIKE [Per United Press Association.] WELLLINGTON, February 3. The result of the ballot in Wellington on the national relief workers strike issue was announced in the Trades Hall this morning as follows: For the strike 705, against 1,129. It was stated that 780 voting papers had not been returned. There were about 300 at the meeting, and a motion recommending the national executive of the National Unemployed Workers Movement to withhold strike action until a more opportune time was carried. , A meeting called at Petone by the Unemployed Workers’ Movement was attended by about 150 this morning, and there were only ten dissentients to the resolution asking the national executive of the movement to postpone action on the strike issue until a.complete ballot could be taken. among all relief jyorkers tf)e dominion*