UNEMPLOYED WORKERS.
Arrangements for Sustenance Protest. Delegates from relief jobs and representatives of trade unions attended a meeting of the Council of Action of the Canterbury Unemployed Workers’ Association in the Trades Hall on Friday. It was reported that opposition to the sustenance scheme, and also against relief workers’ conditions generally was steadily growing. Arrangements for the approaching mass demonstration were proceeding satisfactorily. Details were also well in hand for a further meeting next Sunday in Sydenham Park, and an indoor meeting at night in the same district. Sydenham would be divided into blocks, and all workers’ houses visited. The organiser was instructed to send appeals for assistance to all trade unions and other sympathetic bodies asking for their co-operation and support. It was also decided to send an invitation for speakers from these organisations to collaborate with the unemployed and address a mass meeting to be arranged. A resolution was carried that relief workers should be asked to get their wives to write to the Minister of Defence not later than August 1 (International Peace Day) for the purpose of making a united protest against war.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20364, 23 July 1934, Page 7
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187UNEMPLOYED WORKERS. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20364, 23 July 1934, Page 7
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