Unemployment Board’s Task Labour Proposal

Manawatu Times, Volume LIX, Issue 7486, 9 June 1934, Page 6

Unemployment Board’s Task Labour Proposal

PROTEST ENTERED AT AUCKLAND Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. An emphatic protest against the Unemployment Board's task labour proposal was entered at an unemployment conference attended by representatives of Auckland fecal bodies and social organisations. The Mayor of Auckland (Mr G. W. Hutchison) said that delegates from various relief jobs had waited on him that morning regarding the inauguration of the system at New Lynn. A certain amount of work was require! to be done under the scheme and it was represented that a number of unfit men would not be able to earn as much money as previously. There was no provision whereby men who could do work under the stipulated time should receive more money. After hearing a deputation from the men, the following motion was unanitnousiv carried: ’‘That this conference emphatically protests against the policy of task labour as initiated by the Unemployment Board as being unnccessarv, harsh in its incidence and provocative of ill-feeling; further, that the conference asks that its operation be suspended pending further investigation. ’ ’ The Mayor said the protest would be telegraphed to Wellington immediate])’. It was also decided 1o protest against the reduction made to men on sustenance allowances in spite of an assurance given by the Minister to the men that the matter would be satisfactorily dealt with.