SOCIALIST GUARDIANS.
AMAZING ALLEGATIONS MADE. EXPENDITURE OF PUBLIC FUNDS. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION- COPYRIGHT. LONDON, March 8. How the Socialist guardians of Chester Le Street, Durham; the majority being miners’ officials, miners and their wives, spoilb the public funds during the. coal dispute is the subject of amazing allegations by the Government Commission appointed to rep'ace the guardians on account of their mal-adminis-tration. ■ . The Commission says: With trade union assistance, svmpathisoTis at the commencement of the dispute took over the administration of the town, incurring a debt of £178.000. They dismissed officials for refusing to make illegal relief payments while otherwise honest people had been degraded and corruptid. The guardians’ administration between: Mav and August .last was simp]y the maintenance of persons engaged! in the industrial dispute by the trade union out of public money.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 10 March 1927, Page 5
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