MORE MEN WORKING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21167, 27 April 1932, Page 12

MORE MEN WORKING.

STRIKE NOT CALLED OFF. SOME AREAS STILL AFFECTED. IMPROVEMENT EXPECTED TO-DAY The position on relief works throughout the city and suburbs generally showed a considerable improvement yesterday, there being a great many more men at work than in the early part of last week. While it was announced that the executive of tho Unemployed Workers' Association had decided that the strike was to continue a number of men who refused to work last week reported on numerous jobs yesterday and there was an almost complete absence of picketing. In several areas it was reported that there were indications that more of the strikers would report for work to-day. There was a good response to tho call for workers on the various relief schemes under tho control of tho City Council yesterday, when about 440 men were started. These were mainly four-day men and as tho week's work for tho three-day men commences to-day it is anticipated this number will be greatly increased. Tho strike was effective mainly on the council's jobs in the Avondale district, where last week a few men who desired to work were drafted to other undertakings. Yesterday, however, there were 53 men at work on jobs spread over Avondale, Point Chevalier and Waikumete, with a prospect of moro starting to-day. Position at Mt. Albert. The position was practically tho same in tho Mount Albert borough, where the organisation which claims to speak for the men has declared that no relief work is to bo done. A number of men who did not put in an appearance on the jobs last week started work yesterday, swelling the ranks cf those who had refused to obey the order to strike. In stating yesterday that the position in tho borough was better than at the beginning of last week, the Mayor, Mr. W. F. Stilwell, said that from statements made to him by individual relief workers he gathered there was a well-shared desire among tho men to return to their work and ho was led to believe that a large number would report this morning. A reasonable attitude has been adopted all along by the relief workers in tho Mount Roskill district and during the past fortnight all the men for whom work has been available have reported for duty. Yesterday the i nil quota of 160 was employed, and operations w,ere carried on without trouble or any sign of pickets. Similar conditions were experienced in the One Tree Hill borough, where 112 men were engaged. At Mount Eden almost all the men for whom work had been allocated were carrying on. Conflicting Attitudes.

The completo stoppage of work continues at New Lynn, where the men have decided not only to continue the strike, but to refuse work under the new rates of pay announced by the Government. This attitude has been adopted also by the men at Mcunt Wellington, Panmure, Glen Eden and Ellerslie. About the same number of men was at work at Takapuna yesterday as last week, and it is understood men will start at Devonport to-day. It was reported yesterday that the relief workers at Takapuna and Devonport have adopted a recommendation to the executive of the Unemployed Workers Association that the strikers be allowed to return to work. It was slated that the bulk of those now on strike contemplate starting to-day. All the men in Northcote for whom there was work resumed duty yesterday, a total of 118 being engaged on operations supervised by the borough council. TRIBUTE TO WORKERS. MOUNT SOSKILL DISTRICT. A tribute to the conduct of relief workers in the Mount Roskill district was paid at a meeting of the road board last evening by th«. chairman, Mr. C. M. McCullough. Mr. McCullough said the board had experienced no trouble with the relief workers in its employ, and it was only fair to express appreciation of the men's attitude. The board intended to do as much as possible for the unemployed. The engineer, Mr. J. Dawson, stated that all work;! under the No. 5 scheme of relief were progressing satisfactorily.