RELIEF CAMPS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1933, Page 6

RELIEF CAMPS

A REQUEST FOR SUSTENANCE

FOR FAMILIES OF OBJECTORS

(Per Press Association Copyrit/ht.)

HAMILTON, November 22

A request that sustenance be provided for families of married relief workers, who refuse ‘to go to camp was made to the mayor (Mr J. R. Fow), by a deputation, resulting from a meeting of the Hamilton unemployed workers movement and camp committee.

It was also stated the men would, he willing to go to camp provided that a wage of £3 per week was guaranteed.

There were several brisk verbal encounters on both sides. It was alleged that the deputation founded its objection to camp life purely on rumour. Mr H. Vader on behalf of the Welfare League, explained that the League would care for genuinely necessitous cases.

COMMUNIST ACTIVITY ALLEGED

MINISTER SUPPORT'S REQUEST

HAMILTON, November 22,

“There is definite evidence that there is a Communist centre here, polluting the minds of relief workers, and urging them to refuse to go to the camps,” said the borough engineer ■'Mr R. Worley), when discussing thesubject which arose as a result . of the deputation from the. Hamilton Unemployed workers movement and camp committee, which waited on the; Mayor, (Mr J. R- Fow). “They style themselves as friends of the Soviet Union, and their leader is opposed to camps.” The Rev. H. T. Peat: “It is not the Communistic element. The men are being driven to extremities. If it were not for my Christian principles, I would he stampeded into anarchy.” ,