RELIEF WORKERS’ UNION
MARRIED MEN IN CAMPS. About 250 members of the relief workers’ union were present at the Workers’ Hall, New Plymouth, last ■ night. Mr. F.- Baird presided. The following motion was carried:— “That unemployed soldiers in the relief workers’ union protest against the move being made to place married men in camps on the deviation scheme at Urenui, and call upon the secretary of the R.S.A., who is a member of the North Taranaki unemployment committee, to register his . protest against this scheme being conducted with married relief workers.
The meeting recorded a further protest against the Taranaki Hospital Board’s placing a member on its board in the position of a job foreman. In the opinion of the meeting, memlyers of the hospital board were elected to . look after life and limb and not to start and stop.relief workers on their jobs.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1933, Page 7
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