RELIEF WORKERS’ STRIKE
COMMANDEER RAILWAY CARRIAGE
(By Telegraph—Piesa Association) WELLINGTON, 20th March. Twenty-ninei relief workers yesterday accepted their own invitation to travel free from Okaihau to Auckland on the New Zealand railways. Dissatisfied with the terms of employment on clearing land and road making under the Small Farms scheme on the McKenzie block, four miles from Kohukohu, the men went on strike and resolved to use the railway for travelling to Auckland, where the majority have their homes. Arriving at Okaihau railway station in a body they commandeered one of the carriages and set out on their homeward way. They refused to buy tickets, sayihg that if they did so they would be stranded on arrival at Auckland. Their names and addresses were taken and it is understood. that negotiations will be entered into with the Labour Bureau.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 21 March 1936, Page 7
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138RELIEF WORKERS’ STRIKE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 21 March 1936, Page 7
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