RELIEF WORKERS STRIKE

Wairarapa Daily Times, 30 June 1933, Page 5

RELIEF WORKERS STRIKE

NO SETTLEMENT REACHED.

NAPIER, Thursday. No settlement has been arrived at in connection with the strike of relief [workers in the < Napier-Hastings district. The men for the' most part are still refusing to undertake work offering, though a fairly substantial number are continuing to make their ap-.peatrauc-e on the various relief jobs as usual.

A conference of local body delegates convened by the Mayor of Napier (Mr C. O. Morse) in an endeavour to- settle the dispute, decided to ask the Government to secure from all local bodies a list of their urgent essential capital works and to seek Cabinet consideration of the general question of financing local bodies, either by an increase in currency or any other means which would result in the undertaking of essential approved work throughout New Zealand, preferably by the capitalisation of part, .of . the unemployment funds, maintenance work to be at standard pay and approved major construction works subsidised from the Unemployment Funds. To-morrow the provincial council of the NationaLUnion of JJftemployed will meet in Hastings to discuss the answer made by the County Council to the ultimatum of the provincial council. The period of this ultimatum expired to-night. The provincial council will then transmit its recommendations to the national council of. the National Union of Unemployed in Wellington. The County Council has undertaken not to reduee its own staff and substitute unemployed, and says a decision' as to whether married men shall go into camp shall rest with the men eoneerned. : — CP.AO . , WELLINGTON MEETING. ADDRESS BY. STRIKER. A delegate from the striking Hawke’s Bay relief workers addressed a large meeting at the Trades Hall at Wellington last evening. The meeting was strictly limited to relief workers, who were required to present their relief cards before being admitted. It is understood that the meeting ended with no definite action being decided upon.