WAGES AND RELIEF WORKS
A LABOUR PROTEST. Bv Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, June 14. A deputation from the Otago branch, of the New Eealand Workers’ Union waited on Air. Statham, M.P., to protest against an alleged breach of agreement by the State. Mr. Boreliam stated that the local Labour Office .had been cutting down the wages of men now being sent into the country by 25 to 33 1-3 per cent on agreement wages, showing_ the «f tlte 'Actfag-Plremier s statement. The union, condemned the relief business. It was wrong to ask men to go into the country, where everything was dearer, at a wage they could not live on. Air. Statham said he believed the (rovernment’s principle of paying low rates was quite wrong. He promised to endeavour to' rectify what appeared to lie at least a moral broach of the agreement.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 223, 15 June 1921, Page 4
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142WAGES AND RELIEF WORKS Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 223, 15 June 1921, Page 4
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