UNEMPLOYEDS’ BOYCOTT

Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1931, Page 4

UNEMPLOYEDS’ BOYCOTT

HASTINGS VISITING LABOUIR OBJECTION TO FIRMS’ POLICY. APPEAL TO THE COMMISSIONER. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hastings, Last Night. A motion expressing determination to boycott all commercial firms employing outside labour, together with other motions couched in restrained language but similar in spirit, was passed by a meet - ing of 200 or more unemployed held in Hastings. -The percentage of unemployed in Hastings is 5.2 reckoned on the borough population, as against the Dominion average of slightly more than per cent. Following are the resolutions, all or which were carried unanimously: That the meeting pledge itself to boycott any firm on whose premises outside labour is used from this date; that the meeting views with alarm the bringing in of’ outside labour when there are between 500 and 600 unemployed in Hastings borough alone; that this meeting of working men point out to the Commis eioner, Mr. J. S. Barton, that every working man of this town wishes to rehabilitate himself as a worker and that Mr. Barton in granting permission to erect new buildings should insist that only local labour be engaged as that is the only means by which the working man will be able to rehabilitate him6elf> ... X A final resolution pointed out the total inadequacy of employment which gave a married, man 12 days’ work in a month at 12s 6d a day, or £7 10s for four weeks’ work.”