UNEMPLOYED MEETING
POLICE ASKED TO QUIT
[PER press association.]
WELLINGTON, August 14
The opening of the meeting held yesterday by the Wellington Relief Workers’ Union, to discuss the controversy between that organisation and the National Union of Unemployed, was preceded by a request by the chairman to two members of the police force seated in the hall ,to retire. He explained that it was not a public, but a business meeting, io reorganise the relief workers. The detectives, however, remained seated, and the chairman announced the meeting adjourned. There was silence for a minute or two, when one detective said. “Very ■well, Mr Chairman, we ’will leave you to it.”
They departed, and the meeting was declared open. A resolution was carried protesting “against the arrest of our comrades,” and expressing a determination to carry on the struggle for their release?.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 August 1933, Page 7
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