COMMUNISTS BLAMED
RELIEF WORK UNREST HAMILTON DISCUSSION (Per Press Association.) HAMILTON, this day. A request that sustenance should be provided for the families of married ielicf workers who refuse to go to camp was made to the Mayor, Mr. J. LFow. by a deputation resulting from a meeting of the Hamilton Unemployed Workers’ Movement and camp committee. It was also stated that men would bo willing to go to camp provided a wage of £3 per week was guaranteed. There were several brisk verbal encounters on both sides, in which it was alleged that the deputation founded its objection to camp life purely on rumor. Mr. H. Valder, on behalf of the Welfare League, explained that the league wotdd care for genuinely necessitous cases. “There is definite evidence that there is,a Communist centre here polluting the minds of relief workers and urging them to refuse to go to camps, ’ said the borough engineer, Mr. It. Worley. “They stylo themselves Friends of the Soviet Union, and the leader is opposed 1 to camps.” i The Rev. 11. T. Peat: It is not a ! Communist element. The men are being 'driven to extremities. Were it not for jny Christian principles I would he ' stampeded into anarchy.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18252, 22 November 1933, Page 2
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204COMMUNISTS BLAMED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18252, 22 November 1933, Page 2
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