RATES ON RELIEF
PROTESTS AT ROTORUA. AERODROME work strike. By Telegraph—Press Association. Rotorua, March 21. At a well-attended public meeting held in RotOrua on Wednesday evening a motion was carried calling upon the Government to investigate the conditions under which relief workers were existing in the town, and expressing the opinion that the rates paid were insufficient to sustain them while doing hard work. Relief workers present at the meeting unanimously voted to continue the strike which is at present in progress as a protest against conditions imposed in connection with work on the aerodrome.. The men demonstrated by marching through the town, but were very orderly and refrained from molesting some of * number in the outer district who COBtinueii working. ■ • The UnWmployment Board refused to give the men work unless they returned to the atfo'drome job, and this they re*, fuse t? do on the present rates.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1935, Page 4
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