BREAKING UP HOMES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 497, 20 July 1932, Page 5

BREAKING UP HOMES

RELIEF CAMP SCHEME “The Government is turning relief camps into slave camps, and breaking up the homes of decent married men and robbing this borough of its best relief work, el's,” stated Mr. John Guiniven, Mayor of Takapuna, at a meeting of the Borough Council (reports the Auckland Star), The Mayor said he understood that the Labour Department intended thin, ning out groups of relief workers in the borough. He suggested that the council should protest to the Government and urge an in. crease in the allocation for relief work.

“It is unreasonable for the Government to get our best relief men to leave their wives and families to go to these slave camps and work a 44hour week for 102 d per hour. That is the pay. Such a thing is only breaking up the homes,” he said. “Surely, after paying the heavy taxation we are made to pay, we should have a say in the matter, and be allowed to keep our best workers. The money should not all be spent in the ■country districts for the benefit of •thp>. farmers —or rather the men who .have got,,, the mortgages over the farms. The Government is taking of the, petrol tax and spending it in country districts'.' It is time we , pro?estod ah(l' aslc&l' larger ah ! location" fßF'^'e^Wm.’ 41 ;- I ,' ; <• Mr. Gibsoft: whold thing is a crying shame on'the part of the Government.” : r<i ‘■“lf s is modern feudalism,” said the t} Mayor. “It is absidutely vile and worse than feudalism,” said Mr. Titchener. “Today, because . these unfortunate men are out of a job, they are asked to go to the country camps and stay there. Our nation is founded on home'life, and this latest move cn the part of the Government is only striking at the root of national IH’e.” ’“Even the Farmers’ Union has comrdninod to the Government,” said the Mayor. It was unaninucuslv resolved to forward a strong protest to the Gov. ernment.