MUCH QUIETER

Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1932, Page 6

MUCH QUIETER

POSITION AT AUCKLAND,

(By Tslegraph — ter tress Association)

AUCKLAND, April 19

More men are at work to-day on relief jobs than yesterday and the position generally has shown improvement. Because threat® against those men who remained at work at Devonport, complaints were made by strikers that the employed men requested Borough Council to close down relief jobs till Thursday. The Council acquiesced. The atmosphere created by hist week’s riots is now noticeably calmer. Precautions lire not being relaxed m the slightest. Rather they have been increased, hut there i,s much less apprehension in the public mind. Keen interest is taken in the stop work meeting of the Seamen’s Union this morning but at noon no decision bad been announced.

NO DECISION REACHED

AUCKLAND, (April 19

It is announced that no decision lias been readied at- the meeting of the Auckland branch, of the federation of the Seamen’s Union, held at the Trades Hall this morning to consider a communication received from the National Council in Wellington Ibe discission lated several hours._

SOCIAL WORKERS RESOLVE

AUCKLAND, April 19

At the Auckland Social Workers’ A.ssn. annual meeting, resolutions were passed' viewing with the gravest misgivings the abolition of compulsory arbitration, and. the proposed reduction of old age pensions. Another resolution states that viewing the position from /:he moral and domestic side, the social workers enter a solemn protest at the establishment e r

any relief work for married men, especially those wfth children. necessitates separation of the worker from his family.