PAY ON RELIEF WORKS
DR ASTIC! REDUCTION URGED
WAIKATO FAKMERS’ VIEW
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) HAMILTON, Jan. 9. Strong criticism of the relief rate wages, of Ids a. day was voiced by the Waikato Farmers’ Union to-day. The following resolution was carried: ‘This executive refuses to support the Unemployment Board in finding work for the unemployed so long as the existing relief rates are paid, believing them uneconomic and only, aggravating the general economic position, but will assist in every way possible where the rates are drastically reduced.” Mr. R. H. Eeisst, in describing the relief wages as one of the- greatest criminal Blunders imposed on the country. claimed that the best thing that could happen would Ire for them to resist, not to assist in, giving work at 14s a day.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 10 January 1931, Page 6
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