RELIEF WORKERS’ STRIKE
FREE LABOURERS ON JOB Presa Association —Copyright Wellington, April 11. —The presence of two men who havo worked for the season in the freezing works and styled “free labourers” by the men on the job was responsible for a strike of 100 relief workers at Southern Crescent this morning. The men approached the unemployment bureau and were sent back. Officials who went to the job were asked to transfer the "men elsewhere but this was refused. On other jobs similar complaints were made, but the relief workers continued to work pending instructions from their union. It is stated that 125 men who were employed at the freezing works during the season are now drifting back to relief jobs owing to the approaching close of the freezing season.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 219, 12 April 1933, Page 5
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