RELIEF WORKERS’ DISPUTE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21993, 30 June 1933, Page 8

RELIEF WORKERS’ DISPUTE

STRIKE IN HAWKE’S BAY EFFORTS TO EFFECT A SETTLEMENT. (Per United Press Association.) NAPIER, June 29. No settlement has been arrived at in connection with the strike of reliei workers in the Napier-Hastings district. The men, for the most part, are still reato undertake the work offering, there is a fairly substantial number appearing on the various jobs as usual. A conference of local bodies delegates convened by the Mayor of Napier (Mr C. O. Morse), in an endeavour to settle the dispute, decided to ask the Government to secure from all local bodies a list of their urgent essential capital works and to seek Cabinet consideration of the. general question of financing local bodies either by an increase in currency or any other means which would result in the undertaking of essential approved work throughout New Zealand, preferably by the capitalisation of part of the unemployment funds, maintenance work to be at the standard rate of pay on basis, and essential and approved major construction -works to be subsidised from the unemployment funds. To-morrow morning the Provincial Council of the National Union of Unemployed will meet at Hastings to discuss the answer of the Hawke’s Bay County Council to the ultimatum of the Provincial Council. The period of this ultimatum expired to-night. The Provincial Council will then transmit its recommendations to the National Council of the National Union of Unemployed in Wellignton. The County Council has undertaken not. to reduce its own staff and substitute unemployed, and states that the decision whether married men shall or shall not go into camp will rest with the men concerned.