STRIKE ATTITUDE

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 149, 27 June 1933, Page 8

STRIKE ATTITUDE

NAPIER UNEMPLOYED

"NO PASSIVE RESISTANCE"

(By 'Telegraph.—Press Association.) NAPIER, This Day. Following the decision to call a strike of relief workers protesting against the employment of unemployed on river diversion work, a meeting of unemployed held in Napier last evening decided unanimously that, instead of adopting passivo resistance, they would employ every means there were to see that thero were no "blacklegs." Tho unemployed maintain that river diversion work should be carried out under full-time conditions, and at standard rate of wages, and .that county, council work is maintenance which should be dono by the council's permanent staff. Relief workers have made an appeal to business men throughout tho district, which concludes with the following: "We aro confident/that j you will not allow our wives and children to go hungry while we aro lighting for better conditions." Speakers •at one of the several meetings held throughout tho day said that so far as national action is concerned he did not know what advice the local organisation would give to the National Council. It would bo foolish to "stage an explosion" at present, but there was no doubt that when serious action was taken' the public would be sympathetic not only in Hawkers Bay but throughout New Zealand.