THE UNEMPLOYED.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, August 21. An open air meeting of the unemployed was held this morning. A speaker named Wright made a violent attack on the Government for their “ cold-blooded and white-livered ” action with regard to the existing distress. He said 150 men working at Woodhill were up to their waists in a swamp. Mr Peacock, M.H.R., was present, but on account of the wet weather was not asked to address meeting, which was adjourned to the City Hall, at 8 p m. Auckland, August 24. At a mass meeting of the unemployed, Messrs Peacock, Thompson and Moss, M.H.R.'s delivered addresses. A vote of censure was passed on Mr Peacock for his inaction about the unemployed in the Assembly, and a vote of thanks to Messrs Thompson and Moss for the steps taken by them, was carried. Owing to the Bell having denounced a number of the unemployed at the mass meeting as loafers who did not work and would not work, at the close of the meeting to-day a deputation was appointed, consisting of Mr Farnall (chairman of the unemployed) and Meesrs Balhay and Jenne, to call on Mr G. M. Reed, idicor of the Bell, and demand that an apology be printed. A crowd followed the deputation, but on reaching the Bell office they found Superintendent Thompson, who had got wind of the affair, and a detachment of police on the ground. Superintendent Thompson informed the crowd that they must not go in, but that two or three might to represent their sentiments. The editor threatened to eject one of the deputation for strong langauge, and refused to apologise for the article or to retract it. Three hundred unemployed are now op, public works, Government and municipal. Christchurch, August 24. A number of single men and widowers who were employed on the relief works by Government have been discharged. Forty of them waited on the Mayor to-day begging for work, but it appears that nothing can be done for them, as Mr Anstay, the Council’s Engineer, is absent from Christchurch.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 756, 27 August 1886, Page 10
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345THE UNEMPLOYED. New Zealand Mail, Issue 756, 27 August 1886, Page 10
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