“GO SLOW” TACTICS.
ACTION BY RELIEF WORKERS
Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Dec. 13
The assertion that the “go slow” policy is being followed by members of the 53 branches of the Auckland Provincial Unemployment Workers’ Association was made to-day by the association’s president, Mr F. Lark. He said the policy was decided on a week ago at a meeting of the national executive of the unemployed. Following the 10 per cent, cut in relief pay, the men had decided that, rather than let their wives and families feel the operation of the cut, which last week amounted to four shillings off the wages of married men, they would go short and work according to their strength. Hence the “go slow” policy. Men could only work in proportion to the amount of food they got. Inquiries made of local bodies failed to establish that the policy is fully operative, although last night relief workers of a suburban town board officially notified the board that they intended to adopt the policy until sustenance was granted and the recent cut restored,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 13, 13 December 1932, Page 2
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