REFUSAL TO WORK
NINETEEN UNEMPLOYED HIGHER WAGES WANTED (By Telegraph—Press Association) CARTERTON, This Day. Because the Featherston Borough Council did not accede to the unemployed men’s request for higher wages for skilled work, nineteen unemployed went on strike this morning. These men had been employed making netting for river groynes, and building groynes. They held that this was skilled work, and that they should be paid higher. The council maintains that it is not skilled work, any man being able fo pick it up in ten minutes. The men’s foreman, P. O’Regan, notified that the men must either carry on or stand down. They decided to refuse to work.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 7 January 1935, Page 2
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109REFUSAL TO WORK Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 7 January 1935, Page 2
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