TEMPERS STRAINED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 151, 29 June 1932, Page 8

TEMPERS STRAINED

UNEMPLOYED SINGLE MEN. NEW PLYMOUTH DEPUTATION. I Per Press Association.! NEW PLYMOUTH, June 28. “The tempers of unemployed single men are becoming strained,” said a union official when a deputation representing the men waited on the North Taranaki Unemployment Committee. The union secrcary added that if the committee could not give the single men some further relief he would not be responsible for their actions. Some, he said, had threatened to break windows. One member of the deputation said that he had been to the Police Station, but had not threatened to break the station windows, as some, others had. However, if he could not obtain further relief he intended to go begging in the streets, inviting- arrest aud trial before the Court. He believed the law would hold that the King’s subject should not be allowed to starve. Complaints were made against farm crs under the relief scheme dismissing men to secure the advantage of sub sidised labour. Bitter complaint was made against the statement of the chairman of the Hospitals Association, Mr. Wallace, urging hospital boards not lo give relief to single men who were able to do any work. Ihe committee told the deputation that owing to lack of funds it could give further relief to single men only at tho expense of married men. li would consider any proposal that would afford the single men relief without harming the married men.