MR. COATES FIRM ON WAGES
WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED (.Special to THE SUN.) CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. The Right Hon. J. G. Coates, speaking to a deputation of unemployed last evening, said that the Government would stand firm on the wages that it had offered to the unemployed, and that no immigrants would come to the Dominion between May and August of this year. He addressed two deputations, one introduced by the Mayor of Christchurch, the Rev. J. K. Archer, and the other led by and composed of followers of Mr E. L. Hills, who claimed that he represented the “genuine unemployed.” The Prime Minister said that economic conditions over which the Government had no control were responsible for.the position, and he was unable at the present time to promise anything in the direction of clerical work or anything of that kind. He could promise sympathetic treatment on the part of the Labour Department’s officers to the men
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 9, 1 April 1927, Page 13
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