WORK IN THE COUNTRY.
GOVERNMENT’S PROPOSALS. AUCKLAND”PROTEST. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Feb. 18. The Labour Advisory Council, consisting of representatives of the Alliance of Labour, the Trades Council and the District' Council of Unemployed Workers’ .Association, —the latter is stated to represent 7000 relief workers —considered new proposals to send married men to the country to work. It was stated that married men would be sent from families to work 44 hours per week at wages from 37s 6d to £2 10s. • . . Resolutions were passed advising all the unemployed not to accept such, work, -requesting the support of the Alliance of Labour and the Trades Council in this decision, * and protesting against the threatened refusal of sustenance to. those refusing country work. The council considers the proposal a home-wrecking one, and that in framing it the Government has misjudged the temper of the workers and urges the Government to review the scheme.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 67, 18 February 1932, Page 6
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152WORK IN THE COUNTRY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 67, 18 February 1932, Page 6
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