UNEMPLOYMENT

Grey River Argus, 12 June 1933, Page 4

UNEMPLOYMENT

MARRIED MEN’S CAMPS Rules of Board Apply CONFERENCE AGAINST COMPULSION. (P' r Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, June 11. intimation that the rules of the Unemployment Board would be applied, nd that married men unwilling to go into camp, would be considered as voluntarily unemployed, was given by Air R. T. Bailey, when the conference o consider the question of compulsion vas resumed on Saturday. Air Bailey denied the allegations I hat unemployment cards of men who would not go to camp had been torn up at the Labour Bureau. The Conference unanimously expressed itself as being opposed to compulsory element—sustenance, or no sustenance —and also urged that the wages and the conditions of the camps hould be improved. ]t was decided to hold a representative meeting of protest. MARRIED MEN'S CAMPS.

DEPARTAI ENTAL DENIAL. CHRISTCHURCH, June 10. A denial was made this morning by R. T. Bailey, officer in charge of the Labour Department, to the allegations made yesterday at the local bodies’ conference, that because certain unemployed married men refused to go to camp, their registration cards were torn up by Department Officials, and that they were informed no further work would be available for them. Air. Bailey has written to Mayor Sullivan inviting him to visit the bureau, “when you will be permitted to call for the cards alleged to have been destroyed. If the original cards are produced then I will expect a public apology to be offered to the officers of the bureau.” MEETING DISPERSED BY POLICE. AUCKLAND. June 11. A meeting of unemployed called for Quay Street, on the Auckland waterfront this afternoon. was attended by Inspector Hollis. two sergeants. and thirty constables, who quitely dispersed over 200 people, after warning them of a prosecution for obstruction if they refused to move. Inspector Hollis decided that the meeting could not be permitted in a public street. The unemployed erected a platform in spite of having been warned by the police that their meeting was not to be allowed. The platform was seized by the Police. who then dispersed the crowd and the unemployed were told they could join another party, of the United Front in Victoria Dark. They were given back their platform, which they took to the 1 ark. There was no disturbance or demonstration. £25,000 APPEAL. CHRISTCHURCH, June 10. •The business men’s relief appeal, aiming to raise £25,000, has so far netted £4.763. The City Council employers, after bearing an address by the Mayor (Air D. Sullivan) agreed to contribute threepence in the pound from their wages.