RELIEF STRIKE

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1932, Page 5

RELIEF STRIKE

WELLINGTON MEN

DEPUTATION TO MINISTER

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

e WELLINGTON, May 17hArrangements were,-discussed ' to-day by the relief work strikeitfrivith of waiting ■ upon v the Minister of’VlTiiemployment in company: .with 'representatives of -the Alliance of Labour J and the Trade? and Labour Council, presumably to place before’^'the Min'stei representations on behalf -of the- strik-ersY-mb t ■ !K "' - '

Admass meeting of-thb strikers was held' this morning in the Trades Hall, and another was held this afternoon. Figures s.uppbed to-day from an official -source showed that *I4OB men were working to-day out of a total of 2250 for whom jobs had’ - behn allocated! POSITION AT.•CHRISTCHURCH.'

many returning to work.;

CHRISTCHURCH, May The Relief Workers' Strike showed further .signs of. a collapse ::|-'|o. i day, when considerable ,numbei'9_o| 'fhe, who had tint reported for duty 6n Mon* day aceepted. work. . _ __ • - This morning ■ 'on : -x were 1,407 men absent.

Of tit© absentees, ■ t-’e largest nuHl * bers were from the railway gang* (70) and th© Lyttelton .Borough Council wpj-ks (45). . •• "£h rs

It 'seems probable that more men wi'l return to duty to-morrow.

SINGLE MEN REFUSE WORK

WELLINGTON, May 17. •Since April Ist, 130 single men (have .. gone into the camps from .Wellington. It is estimated, that about 750 single men have refused to go into the camps, and they consequently have not been given any work. : ;■ " •