PROTEST OF UNEMPLOYED

Taranaki Daily News, 13 December 1932, Page 9

PROTEST OF UNEMPLOYED

HARDSHIP AT MILLERTON DEPUTATION GOES TO WESTPORT. ' - —- ? ■- COMPLAINT BY FORTY-THREE MEN. . . REDUCTIONS IN ALLOWANCES. ( . By Telegraph.—Pres* Awoelation.; , Westport, Last Night. . A deputation of 43 unemployed from . Millerton came to Westport to-day.and interviewed the deputy-chairman of the Buller Hospital Board, Mr. Fox, in the absence of the chairman, the Hon. W. H. Mclntyre, who is at Nelson, stressing their dire necessity in view of the cuts ; in the unemployed allowances and the stand-down week. • The deputation also waited on Mr. H. E. Holland, MJ?., who got in touch with the Minister of Employment and ascertained from him that a meeting of Cab- , inet was being held that night and ,that a decision would be made known in the / morning. •• In the meantime the unemployed :are . waiting at Westport, the Board having given orders for tea, bed and breakfast Failing some relief, a member of the deputation stated, the women would come from Millerton and • join, them in their protest They state they . ? are worse off than the unemployed elsewhere. They have no gardens or means of supplementing their earnings at Mil- <_ ! lerton, and there is no fund there from , which assistance can be given, such as the mayors’ funds in the cities. . J

LOSS THRpUGH RAIN AVOIDED INVERCARGILL ARRANGEMENT. ...... ' Invercargill, Last Nigh.t. A deputation comprising members of the executives of the Relief Workers’Union and the Relief Workers’ Association, with Mr. W. McChesney, Mayor of South Invercargill, waited on the . assistant engineer of the Public Works De- . • partment, the chairman of the .Southland . Unemployment Committee and the offi-' cer in charge of the Labour Department to-day, when an agreement was reached to avoid loss of pay through wet weather., - ' ' The position now is that the men can work additional days and so have them . in reserve against time lost under any conditions.' ~ : ;