UNEMPLOYED STRIKE
HIGHER WAGES WANTED SKILLED LABOR CLAIM (Per Press Association.) CARTERTON, this day. Because the Featlierston Borough Council did not accede to the unemployed men’s request for higher wages tor skilled work, 19 unemployed went on strike this morning. These men had been employed making netting for river groynes, and building tho groynes. They held that Ibis was skilled work, and that they should be paid higher rates. The council maintains that it is not skilled work, any man being able to pick it up m 10 minutes. The men's foreman, Mr. lb O'Regan, notified that the men must either carry 011 or stand down. They decided to refuse work.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18597, 7 January 1935, Page 8
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