WELLINGTON UNEMPLOYED
WANT AWARD RATES FOR WORK (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A meeting of 50 unemployed yesterday decided to set up an organisation to fight against work at less than the award rates, to set up a fund for that purpose, and seek tlie co-operation of all sections of the labor movement. The chief resolution carried was: "We unemployed workers of Wellington, realising that as as we remain unorganised we are a (menace to organised labor, call on the workers of . Wellington ir> support as in our demand for 1 rade Union rates, or maintenance. We realise further that with the support of organised labor in Wellington our fight against 'scab' wages can be more effectively waged, and we call upon the Trade Unions to give our organisation recognition and support."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16374, 23 June 1927, Page 8
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