RELIEF WORK PAY
PROTEST BY TRADES COUNCIL
Tke Wellington . Trades and Labour Council and the District Council of tho New Zealand Alliance of Labour at a meeting on Thursday evening discussed the question of unemployment and relief work rates of pay. Strong exception was taken to the action of the Government, the Wellington City Council, and local bodies generally in putting ordinary work which they undertake on the relief work basis, and by so doing defeating the objects of the award for the lowest paid workers, and the standard rate fixed by the Arbitration Court. The attitude of the City Council in dealing with its loan money in this way was greatly resented, as so-called relief work, other than in some two or three cases, is work which would in the ordinary course of events, either be let by contract, or bo done by the council's employees, and the Court's award would operate. v
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 138, 7 December 1929, Page 9
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154RELIEF WORK PAY Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 138, 7 December 1929, Page 9
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