Government Asked to Finance Essential Works

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 June 1933, Page 7

Government Asked to Finance Essential Works

RELIEF WORKERS STILL ON STRIKE. COMPREHENSIVE SCHEME SUGGESTED NAPIEE, Last Night. No settlement has been arrived at in connection with the strike of relief workers in the Napier-Hastings district. The men for the most part are still refusing to undertake the work offering though there is a fairly substantial number continuing to make their appearance on the various relief jobs as usual. A conference of local bodies’ delegates convened by the Mayor of Napier (Mr. C. D. Morse) in an endeavour to settle the dispute decided to ask the Government to secure from all local bodies a list of their urgent essential capital works and to seek Cabinet consideration of the general question of financing local bodies either by an increase in currency, or any other means which would result in undertaking essential approved work throughout New Zealand preferably by the capitalisation of part of the unemployment funds, maintenance work to be at standard pay, on the basis of essential and approved major construction works subsidised from the unemployment funds. To-moruow morning the provincial council of the National Union of Unemployed will meet in Hastings to discuss the answer of the Bay County Council to the ultimatum of the Provincial Council. The period of this ultimatum expired to-night. The provincial council will then transmit its recommendations to the national council of the National Union of Unemployed in Wellington. The County Council has undertaken not to reduce its own. staff and substitute unemployed and'says its decision as to whether married men shall go into camp shall rest with the men concerned.