CAMP STRIKE

Grey River Argus, 17 May 1933, Page 5

CAMP STRIKE

OVER SACKING OF MEN For Exposing Bad Conditions (P’*r Press Association). INVERCARGILL. May 16. Twenty-six men, comprising the ma jority of those in the Kapuka Camp lor unemployed went on strike this morning as a protest against the dismissal by the I’ublic Works Department of the Chairman and Secretary of the Camp Committee, for, it is alleged, writing a letter to the press com’da ini ng that the conditions at this cam’p were becoming ‘‘absolutely unbearable.' ’ The strikers’ requested that titf two men should be reinstated and upon the Department refusing, they came in a body t-.» Invercargill and interviewed the Mayor. They did not return to the camp. The Mayor stated later that he was to meet the strikers to-morrow morning. when he hoped to have some thing definite for them In the meantime he would see what the Department had to say in rt?p!y.

DIGGING OF TRENCHES. RELIEF RATES REFUSED. WELLINGTON, May .16. A meeting of delegates of the relief workers on various jobs met hero tonight and discussed the placing of men at digging the trenches to bury the pigs suffering from swine fever at Joh nsonvillc. The Wellington Union endorsed the attitude of the Johnsonville men in refusing to do this work at relief rates. It was decided to accord full support.