N.Z. UNEMPLOYED
A PROTEST MEETING. (By Telegraph —Per Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, March 27, A meeting of unemployed workers to-day declared black the scheme of works to he carried out by the A\ raimakayiri River Trust, in conjunction with the Unemployment Board, on which works married men are offered. 37s (id for a 40-hour week. A Central Strike Committee and other Committees were set up and the meeting determined to do all in its power to prevent any unemployed workers who did not respect this decision from leaving Christchurch on Tuesday morning for the workers camp.
There was also some talk of picketing the Labour Department’s offices in Christchurch. However, Air H. AY. Harris, Engineer for the River Trust, in a statement made later in the afternoon , said that- many of the men engaged for the River Trust work had. expressed to him their intention of .accepting the wages offered. The men complained that the meeting had not been confined to men to be drafted to these works but had been open to other unemployed who could carry hostile resolutions without jeodardising themselves.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1932, Page 4
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182N.Z. UNEMPLOYED Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1932, Page 4
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