RELIEF WORKS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11548, 27 January 1932, Page 5

RELIEF WORKS

DEMAND FOR STANDARD WAGE MASS MEETING AT WELLINGTON MOTION FAVORING STRIKE DECLARED CARRIED SPEAKERS ADVOCATE DIRECT ACTION HOSPITAL BOARD’S FIRM STAND (Press Association.l Jan. 26. Whether all work on relief jobs should cease until standard wages were paid was the question placed before a mass meeting of relief workers hqkl in the Winter Show building this evening. There was an attendance of over 2000 and, although a 'motion favoring a strike was declared carried by a delegate on the platform, it was impossible to determine the exact position on account of the pandemonium.

The meeting lasted for two hours and delegates were present from Hntt. Eastbourne, Khandallah, Happy Valley and Wellington. A majority of the speakers, if not all, criticised tin' No. 5 scheme and the eondi lions under which they were asked to •work and advocated “direct, notion.’’ The Social Welfare Committee of the Wellington Hospital Board has 'decided that any man who refuses to work when il is available will tie refused relief.

MT. ROSKILL HELP

NOW ONLY FOR. RESIDENTS

(Press Association> AUCKLAND, Jan. 2fi.

The Mt. 'Roskill Road Board, which has been one or the largest employers of relief labor in Auckland, has decided that it cannot carry on on Hie same scale, and that after this rnonlli if will not "ive relief to any but residents and ratepayers.

Ori an average the board has been employing POO men. In future there will fie work for 20ft only.

lIUTT VALLEY SITUATION

all WORKS REMAIN IDLE (Press Association) WELLINGTON. Jan. 2ft. There is no change in the Ilutt Valley relief works situation, all the works remaining idle. Seven men offered for work in Potoiio, but were not put on. One mail in Lower Hu'-t offered and was employed. The ITutt and Petrine groups arc sending delegates to the city to-night, when the attitude of the city men will he decided. Later. The Trades and Labor Council today decided to recommend relief workers iri Ilutt Valley and Eastbourne to return to work, the council undertaking to seek redress for grievances and to endeavour to settle the question of the standard wage payment by negotiation.