DISSIPATED
PUBLIC FUNDS USED FOR STRIKE RELIEF SOCIALIST MALADMINISTRATION. GUARDIANS REPLACED Received March 9, 10.10 p.m. LONDON, March 9. How the Socialist Guardians of Chcsterle Street, Durham, the majority being miners’ officials and miners and their wives, spent public funds during the coal disputes is the subject of amazing allegations by the Government Commission appointed to replace the Guardians on account of maladministration. Tho Commission says that with trade union assistance and sympathy the guardians at the commencement of the disputes took over th-o administration of the town, incurring a debt of £JL7B,000. They dismissed officials for refusing to make illegal relief payments, while otherwise honest people had been degraded and corrupted. The Guardians’ administration between May and August last was simply the maintenance of persons engaged in industrial disputes by the trade unions, out of public money.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19787, 10 March 1927, Page 7
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138DISSIPATED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19787, 10 March 1927, Page 7
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