STRIKE NOT FAVOURED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21717, 5 February 1934, Page 10

STRIKE NOT FAVOURED

MEN ON RELIEF WORK DECISION IN WELLINGTON [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Saturday The result of. the ballot taken in Wellington on the national relief workers' strike issue was announced in the Trades Hall this morning. The voting was as follows: —In favour of striking, 705; against, 1129. It was stated that 780 voting papers had not biiien returned. There were about 300 at the meeting, and a motion recommending the national executive of the National Unenployed. Workers' Movement to withheld strike action until a more opportune time was carried. A meeting called at Petone by the Unemployed Workers' Movement was at tended' by about 150 this morning, and there were only ten dissentients to a resolution asking tho national executive of the movement to postpone ac ;ion on the strike issue until a complete ballot could be taken among all relief workers of the Dominion. VOTE IN HAMILTON ACTION TO BE DEFERRED [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Sunday A meeting of relief workers wais held in Hamilton to-day to discuss the question of going on strike. There was a very meagre attendance. .lifter the meeting had been addressed by several speakers, a vote was taken on the issue whether a strike should be immediately declared or whether aci:ion should bo deferred pending advice as to what was happening in other cei: tres. Of the 26 who voted, 21 were in fan our of deferring action, and five opposed the motion.