RELIEF WORKS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 66, 22 March 1929, Page 3

RELIEF WORKS

COMPLAINT AT AUCKLAND.

CONDITIONS TOO ATTRACTIVE

AUCKLAND, Last Night'.

A complaint that the attractive conditions offered on relief works

are encouraging men to leave their employment was made at a meeting of the Auckland executive of the Farmers' Union. Several members concurred with a letter on the subject received from the Northern Flaxmillers' Association.

The association declared that mer were leaving the flax mills to go on relief work and that there, was a shortage of labour as far' as that industry was concerned. "If the wages are increased, every industry that cannct compete with those rates of pay will lose its workers," declared Mr R. H. Feisst. "This is the price the Government is paying to Labour for its support." He moved a resolution protesting against the payment of standard rates en relief works.

Other speakers opposed this view The matter was deferred pending further! information.