"GO-SLOW" ABANDONED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21399, 25 January 1933, Page 11

"GO-SLOW" ABANDONED

SUBURBAN RELIEF MEN DISMISSAL THE PENALTY The "go-slow" policy on relief works which was advocated by the Auckland Provincial Unemployed Workers' Association early in December as a protest against the 10 per cent cut in relief pay and sustenance is considered to have been definitely abandoned in Auckland and suburbs by the small proportion of men who professed to have adopted it before the holidays. However, the Labour Department found it necessary to. take action in regard to a declaration made to the Glen Eden Town Board on December 10 by three representatives of local relief workers, who stated that the "go-slow" policy would bo put into effect immediately and would continue until the Unemployment Board restored payments to their former level.

The matter was taken up with the Town Board, which was given to understand that the allocation made to any local authority would be withdrawn if that authority failed to secure a proper measure of work from men employed by it under No. 5 scheme. An official slated yesterday that the Town Board had given an undertaking that any men who deliberately failed to give their fair share of work would be promptly dismissed. At the meeting of the Town Board on Monday, advice was received that the "go-slow" policy had been abandoned.