INCREASED WAGES SOUGHT

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 15 June 1935, Page 5

INCREASED WAGES SOUGHT

GISBORNE RELIEF WORKERS REQUESTS TO THE MINISTER (By Telegraph—Tress Association.) GISBORNE, June 14. A motion that the Government be urged to increase the payment to all relief workers by 10s a week was passed at the annual meeting of the Gisborne relief committee to-day. The mover, Mr C. Goodson, who represented the unemployed workers' movement, said the Unemployment Board had funds and could easily afford the extra amount. Seconding the motion Mr D. Coleman, M.R., said everyone recognised it was impossible for a relief worker to exist on the rate paid to-day. A married man without children received 21s a week, and if he had two children received 26s a week. He had to pay rent, so it was impossible to live on the remainder. An appeal for an increase of at least os a week in the grant made to men on sustenance, and a protest against the new regulation which requires men to report in addition to the compulsory call at the post of!ice to receive their allowance, are contained in a letter sent by the Auckland Social 'Workers’ Association to the Minister of Employment, says an Auckland message. The association, representing 30 organisations, points out that its resources have been almost- completely exhausted in its endeavours to help the sustenance men.