RELIEF WORKERS
In Wellington City
PEACEFUL PENETRATION
AGITATORS’ WILES COMBATTED
(Per Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. Some 1537 out of 2133 unemployed due to start to-day are stated to be at work.
Pickets visited a number of small • jobs and induced 100 men to leave >off.
The policy of peaceful penetration was essayed on some of the jobs.
Some of the men ,it is alleged, are reporting back for work with the intention of taking an opportunity of discussing the situation with men who remain determined to work, the object being to dissuade them from continuing.
It is stated that on the Hataitai job the engineer when strikers came to work, put them on the lower portion of the hill, and the men who had been working, at the top, and permitted no contact between the jobs.
When the position became plain
to the new-comers they put down their tools and left.
Tthings were quiet at the Trades Hall this morning, they there were knots of men within discussing the position.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 122, 18 May 1932, Page 5
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