UNEMPLOYMENT DISPUTES
WORKERS* DELEGATES FORMAL RECOGNITION SOUGHT. I '• * - .'• ■ r ■ . : ' ; _ (From Our Parliamentari Reporter) WELLINGTON, February 15. Formal recognition of delegates representing unemployed workers in. their representations to their employing authorities was sought by Mr E. J. Howard (Christchurch East) in an urgent question addressed to the Acting-Minister of Employment (Sir Alexander Young) in the House-of Representatives to-day. Mr Howard said that complaints were constantly being made that delegates, as soon as the/ became-active 1 in the interests of the men, were required to stand down for a week or fortnight, and then they were sent to other jobs. The Minister, in reply, said the unemployed workers who received relief work under scheme 5 were employees of local bodies, which, doubtless, followed the normal practice in according recognition to the representatives of the men... The board had' no' authority over the local bodies in such a matter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22498, 16 February 1935, Page 21
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