RELIEF WORK.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18807, 1 December 1932, Page 9

RELIEF WORK.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —I would like to protest against the way relief workers are being treated. The Unemployment Board made a great noise about giving relief workers a fortnight’s pay without work during the forthcoming 'holidays. The fact of the matter, Sir, as far as the relief worker is concerned, is that lie will only get. one week’s pay. How is it that in Hamilton we have the stand-down week and in other centres no such thing occurs? Are we less human in this beautiful town? I am quite sure that If those men at tho head of affairs had just one month of relief pay It would be an eyeopener to them. I think it is up to our worthy Mayor to call a public,, meeting to see if ■things in this town cannot be altered; more so as the Mayor, being a doctor, knows quite well that the children’s systems are being undermined. What will their future children be like?— nothing like the boys who left these shores to answer the nation's call. I know for a fact that here in this town the parents are going without for their children’s sake, and this in a land of milk and honey. I never thought I would see men receiving 32s Gd per week for only three weeks out of four.—l am, etc., RELIEF WORKER. Frankton, November 29, 1932.