CAMPS DECLARED BLACK

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 30 April 1934, Page 4

CAMPS DECLARED BLACK

COMPULSION STRONG 1„Y RESENTED. MARRIED RELIEF WORKERS AFFECTED. At a meeting of relief workers held in New Plymouth on Saturday evening a resolution was passed that all married relief workers’ camps should be declared black as long as men are compelled to go to them. The subject particularly under discussion at the meeting was the camp at Urenui, it being declared that of the 15 men required by the Labour Department seven had signified their intention of entering the camp while six had been granted exemption on medical and othe; grounds. The excuses of two had been refused. It was resolved that Messrs A. Wallace (president of the union). P. Collings and J. Whelan meet the New Plymouth unemployment- committee with the object of securing rein-, statement of the two men, who would otherwise be penalised for refusing tc. go to the camp. It would be suggested to the committee that it should endeavour to fill the camp with nonunion men. The same deputation would also wait on the New Plvmouth Ministers’ Association- to ask for; its co-operation in an effort to obtain a withdrawal of the rule compelling men to go to the 'camp. Further, the association would be asked to support a request that the allocations to New Plymouth for relief purposes should be on the same basis as those for the large centres.