Forty Relief Workers Ventilate Grievance

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7241, 22 August 1933, Page 7

Forty Relief Workers Ventilate Grievance

BUS PARES COST THEM If- TO 1/10 A DAY Per Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Eorty men who were to go to a relief camp at Ashley this morning refused to leave tho city as a protest against the withdrawal of the bus service between the city and the camp. The men concerned waited on Sir. Bailey, ofiicer-in-charge of tho Labour Department at Christchurch, with tho request that they be transferred to another job if the bus service was not, restored. Mr. Bailey told tho men that unless they went to tho camp and put in a week’s work, they would bo treated as voluntary unemployed and would receive no assistance. The men refused to go. Their complaint was that bus fares last week cost them If- or 1/10 a day, whereas the transport allowance made them was only 1/- a day. Tho men declined the alternative, already accepted by some workers, of going into camp at Ashley and remaining there.