LABOUR COUNCIL AND RELIEF WORKERS.

Evening Star, Issue 22144, 26 September 1935, Page 16

LABOUR COUNCIL AND RELIEF WORKERS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I personally consider Mr J. Sutherland has a grouch because there is a Labour Council in power in Dunedin, and wants to use the relief workers as a safety valve, as it were, for his feelings, and he is wrong in his assertions in the main. If he would leave these workers to those who have charge of them and know their .job, then turn his attention to real grievances, instead of making the lot of the unemployed worse by getting into print With a statement that those on standard wages are work-shy and practically boss their foremen in a way, which is incorrect, he would he better employed. I have been employed on the corporation at times for years, and know most of the foremen. 'I regret making a mistake by stating in my lines recently that the Labour Council and mayor of this city gave a concert and dance to the unemployed. It was an organisation representative of the unemployed themselves, and the officials in charge of the movement that did so, and they have reason to be proud of handling such a very successful function. I understand a similar affair is being arranged for a later date.—l am, etc., Arthur Picard. September 24.