RELIEF WORKERS
CONCESSION ASKED FOR. REFUSED BY BOARD. A sum of £1750 was lost to Hastings as a result of the strike of relief workers which began three weeks ago and ended yesterday, said the Mayor (Mr G. F. Roach) at the business men’s meeting which was held last evening for the purpose of discussing a proposal to hold a carnival. That money represented wages that would have been paid to the men, said Mr Roach, but it had all gone to other towns. The meeting unanimously invited the Mayor to ask the Unemployment Board to allow the men some of the money that had been foregone as an addition to what they will in future ordinarily receive.
This morning Mr Roach rang Mr G. C- Godfrey (Unemployment Commissioner) and asked him whether it would be possible, in view of the good conduct of the men, and in view of the distress that they are suffering, to concede a day’s wages. Mr Godfrey, after consulting Mr W. Bromley, answered that it would be impossible to make such a concession, and Mr Roach thereupon sent a telegram asking for reconsideration of his request, or alternatively for an extra day’s work this month.
No reply to the telegram had been received up to the time of our going to press.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 252, 7 October 1932, Page 5
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