NAPIER STRIKE
NO SETTLEMENT YET.
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"NAPIER-, June 29
■No settlement ha s been arrived at in connection wilh the strike of the relief workers in the Napiev-Hastings district. The men are, for the most part, still refusing to undertake work offering, though there is a fairly substantial number continuing to make their appearance on various relief jobs as usual.
A conference of local bodies’ do egnitcg was 'convened to-day by the Mayor of Napier, Mr 0. 0. Morse, in an endeavour to settle the dispute. The conference decided to ask the Government to .secure from all of the local bodies a list of their urgent essential capital works, and to seek the Cabinet’s consideration of the general question financing the local bodies either by an increase in currency, or by any other means which would result, in the undertaking of essential approved work throughout New Zealand, preferably by the capitalisation of part of the unemployment funds; the maintenance wofk to be at standard rates of pay, oh the basis of essentia 1 and approved major construction works, subsidised .from the unemployment funds. To-morrow morning the Provincial Council of the National Union of the Unemployed will meet at Hastings to discuss the answer of the Hawkes Bay County Council- to the ultimatum of the Provincial Council.
The period of . thi 6 - ultimatum expired to-night. The Provincial Council will then transmit its recommendations to the National [Council ■of the National Union of the Unemployed in WelhngThe County Council has undertaken not to reduce its own staff and substitute for them unemployed, and it says that the decision as to whether married men shall go into camp shall rest with the men concerned.
DELEGATION AT WELLINGTON.
WELLINGTON, June 29
A delegate' from the striking Hawkes Bay relief workers addressed a meeting here this evening, admission being limited strictly to the relief workers Jt is understood that nothing was decided on.
NATIONAL UNION SUPPORT
WELIIINGTON, June 30,
The national union of the unemployed officially says that it has taken up' tile dispute of the Hawke’s Bay provincial council.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 June 1933, Page 6
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