RELIEF WORK REFUSED

Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3181, 24 May 1932, Page 4

RELIEF WORK REFUSED

STRIKE AT HUNTLY. MEN'S CLAIM FOR SUSTENANCE. (By Telegraph. Press Association.) HUNTLY, Monday. Relief work under the Unemployment Board was refused by about 250 men at Huntly to-day. The men, most of whom are were recently put off by the'' eo&t\Companies, are on strike because of their objection to the terms under which relief work is offered to them. Among their claims is one that they should be paid sustenance and that they should not be required to do_ relief work. They also refuse to accept the railway maintenance work offered to them, on the grounds that their acceptance would mean the displacement of regular employees who are working at standard wages. There was a further meeting of the unemployed Huntly men this morning. They invited Mr W. H. Northmore, manager of the Farmers' Trading Company's Huntly store, to meet them and they discussed with him the ceedings arising out of the raid on the company's store last . Thursday. Another meeting of the organisation was held this evening to meet the Auckland delegates of the movement. The committee of the Huntly branch has been changed in the last week.