RELIEF WORKERS ON STRIKE.
New Rates Denounced. HUNDREDS OF MEN INVOLVED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY. July 23. About 700 men, engaged on unemployed relief work, have gone on strike as a protest against the new rates and conditions for their employment. Communists agitators are responsible for the stoppage. Wiser Counsels. Finally the men agreed to resume, after hearing the Minister of Labour’s reply to their representatives regarding conditions. It is understood, however, that if the demands are not met satisfactorily, all relief works may be declared “black” by the unemployed workers’ movement. ALL RELIEF WORKS CEASE. SHARP LESSON FOR STRIKERS. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received July 24, 12.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 23. The unemployed on relief works are again on strike. The police drove the agitators away, and the Minister of works ordered all relief works to cease until Monday, when other gangs will be employed, and rations for the strikers will be stopped.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18627, 24 July 1930, Page 9
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157RELIEF WORKERS ON STRIKE. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18627, 24 July 1930, Page 9
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