SICK WORKERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 93, 9 June 1911, Page 5

SICK WORKERS.

GOVERNMENT CONCESSIONS ASKED (Per Press Assnei i fiou ) Wellington, Last Night. A deputation representing the V idlington Trades and Labor Council waited upm tne Ministers to-day and urged tha' he Government should grant sick work ;-s concessions in the matter of railway fares and fees at. Rotorua. It was urged that there were a very large number of cages of sickness and injury that required treatment which could onlv be given at Rotorua, and unfortunately the men concerned had not money to pay their railway fare. The Hon. James Carroll (Acting-Pre-mier) said it seemed to him that Hu question was one that went far beyond what could he settled by individual eoncessions. The question had deeper root than that, and it was one he would like to see properly investigated by the Trades Council and bodies which made provision for the poor. “Jn what way could the Government grant monotanassistance?” be asked. The mere matter of reducing foes would not settle this great question. The Hon. J. A. Millar expressed hisvmpnthy v.ilh the deputation, hut wanted to know how they were going to define a worker. Air. McLaren, ALP.: We define “worker’ in this nse as a person who is in want of healt i. , The Alinistir: That definition of worker must cover every man. whose doctor s certificate says he would lie benefited by sanatorium Irent.ment. Air. Alillar said it was a question whether they bad the right to give to a section of Hie community a privilege which was not. given to every other section. As Hint community in question owned the railways. it was. he added, a question whether they were going to make vhis concession general. The matter would receive careful consideration.