EVICTION ORDERS.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18874, 18 February 1933, Page 6

EVICTION ORDERS.

HAMILTON UNEMPLOYED. POSITION OF RELIEF WORKERS ‘HOSPITAL BOARD APPROACHED, Oevr three hundred relief worker* assembled at the borough council depot In Ward Street to receive their pay yesterday afternoon, and It was while the men were thus together that opportunity was taken by members of the Unemployed Workers’ Movement executive to place before them the position of the men threatened with eviction orders. The object of calling a meeting at this time of • the day was to enable Mr G. Parsons, president of the movement to give a report on the meeting of representatives of ■ the Welfare League and Waikato Hospital Board, who met and discussed what action, if any, could he taken in the interests of evicted relief workers. While the men were awaiting Mr Parson’s arrival, a telegram from the Hon. J. A. Young, In response to a telegram protesting against evictions, was read. It was not until nearly 4.30 p.m, that Mr Parsons arrived from the Hospital Board office, and by thal time many of the men had left the borough depot. However, there was still over a hundred waiting. In giving his report on the hospital board’s position Mr Parsons detailed the events leading up to the present situation, where several men were threatened with eviction orders. He had been forcibly evicted from his home, and what had occurred to him. would happen to many others, because no man on refief could pay rent, he said. He had been to the hospital board, and, in the absence of • the chairman and secretary, had interviewed another officer, who admitted the board’s liability to provide shelter for himself and others in his position. The Welfare League and Hospital Board had taken the matter up, and were doing what they could for the men concerned In the eviction -orders. Representations had been made to Wellington, and. until a reply was received nothing further could be. done. In the meantime, men were being put out of their homes, and the question of the relief workers was what were they going to do about it. Individual action would get them nowhere, so all would have to pull together, and put their shoulders to the wheel to get Justice for the unem* ployed. -