TARANAKI’S TROUBLE

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3758, 29 June 1932, Page 5

TARANAKI’S TROUBLE

THE SINGLE I' N EMPLOY ED THREATENED ACTION WITH BITTER COMPLAINTS (Tel Piww Asi-x-mtionj. Now Plymouth, June 28. The tempers oi unemployed single men ato betxmmig strained, said a union official when a deputation representing the men waited on the North Taranaki i neuiployment Comuiitt.ee. The union secretary adJcd that if tlio committee could nut »ive moji soiuo further relief lie would not. l )e rcpousiblo for their aetions* Sonic, lio id, had threatened to break windows. One member of the deputation said he had been to tlic police station, but had not threatened break the station windows a& goww otjior had. However, if lie could Hot obtain further relief lie intended to go- begging jn tlie streets, inviting arrest and trial before a Court. He believed 'the law would hold that the Xing’s subjects should not ne allowed to starve. Complaints were made 'against farmers under the relief scheme dismissing men in order to secure tho advantage of subsidised labour. Bitter complaints were also made against, tlie statement of the chairman of the Hospital Boards’ Association (Air Wallace) urging hospital boards not to give relief to single men who- were able to do any work. The committee told the deputation that owing to> lack of funds it could give further relief to single mon only at tho expense of married men. It would, however, consider a.i.y proposal that would afford single morn rolief without harming the married men.