RELIEF CAMPS.
26 MEN ON STRIKE.
PROTEST AGAINST DISMISSALS.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, Tuesday.
Twenty-six men, comprising th« majority of those in the Kapuka oamp for unemployed, went on strike this morning as a protest against the dismissal by the Public Works Department of the chairman and secretary of the camp committee for, it is alleged, writing a letter to the press complaining that conditions at tha camp were becoming “ absolutely unbearable.”
The strikers requested that- the two men should be reinstated, and upon the department refusing came in a body to Invercargill and interviewed the Mayor. They did not return to the camp. The Mayor stated later that he was to meet the men- to-morrow morning, when he hoped to have something definite for them. In the meantime he would see what the department / hai .to say in reply.
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Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18947, 17 May 1933, Page 6
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