RELIEF WORKERS
INCREASED PAYMENT SOUGHT.
(Per United Press Association.)
Gisborne, June 14.
A motion that the Government be urged to increase the payment to all relief workers by 10 shillings a week was passed at the annual meeting of Gisborne Relief Committee this afternoon. The mover, Mr G. Goodson, who represented the unemployed workers’ movement, said that the Unemployment Board had funds and could easy afford the extra amount.
In seconding the motion, Mr D. Coleman, M.P., said that everyone recognized how absolutely impossible it was for relief workers to exist on the rate paid to-day. A married man. without children received 21/- a week and if he had two children 26/- a week. He had to pay rent, so it was impossible to live on the remainder.
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Southland Times, Issue 25312, 15 June 1935, Page 8
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