RELIEF WORKERS
A HALF-HEARTED STRIKE POSITION IN WELLINGTON. (Pek United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May IS. One thousand five hundred and thirtyseven men out of 2153 unemployed, due to start to-day, are stated to be at work. Pickets visited a number of small jobs and induced 100 men to leave ofL A policy of peaceful penetration was essayed on some of the jobs. Some of the men, it is alleged, are reporting back for work with the intention of taking the opportunity to discuss the situation with the men who remain and are determined to work, the object being to dissuade them from continuing. ■ It is stated that on a Haitaitai job the engineer, when the strikers came to work, put them on the lower portion of a lull and the men who had been working at the top, and permitted no contact between the jobs. When the position became plain to the newcomers they put down tools and left. A FAILURE IN CHRISTCHURCH. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. May 18. There were no absentees among the relief workers on the City Council and Waimakariri Trust jobs to-day. Similar conditions virtually obtained in all the suburban districts, except Lyttelton, so that the relief strike here has been a total failure.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21648, 19 May 1932, Page 8
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