“BETWEEN TWO STOOLS.”
RELIEF BUREAU CLERKS. AUCKLAND PROTEST MEETING. EXCLUSION FROAI XAIAS BONUS. (By Telegraph.—l’rcss Association.) AUCKLAND, Thursday. A protest meeting is being held this afternoon by men from the unemployed ranks who are engaged os clerks on tho Emplnyincnl Bureau and Labour Department shifts, and who have been eliminated from Ihe benefits of the Ghrislmas bonus for the unemployed. II is estimated that there arc about I o sin'll iii Auckland, and a total of torn.) in Hie four centres. “We fail between two stools,'’ said one of Hu- men 10-day. " When there was something to Ihe advantage of Ihe civil servants we were told that unemployed men were not eligible, and when there is something to the advantage of I lie unemployed, we arc told we are full-time clerks employed at standard rales. We do not see why we should not share in Hie Christmas bonus." ___________
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19758, 13 December 1935, Page 9
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