REFUSAL TO WORK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 17 January 1931, Page 7

REFUSAL TO WORK

ACTION BY WELLINGTON MEN WELLINGTON, This Day. Two deputations of unemployed put, their views before members of the Wellington Hospital Board, with the result that they were told that “individual cases would be treated on their merits.'’ The men had refused to work on certain city relief schemes, and lined up at the social welfare counter at the hospital to receive the usual ticket for bed and meals. When these had been received the mass gathering of unemployed at the hospital gradually dispersed. The Hospital Board will hold a further meeting on Monday to consider what its future action will be. Poliowing on a decision arrived at by a mass meeting of unemployed on Thursday, when an “Unemployed Workers’ Movement” was formed, various men were deputed to visit certain City Council works and induce those engaged there who had not been at the meeting to “down tools” for the day. These visits in nearly every case were successful, with the result that by 2.30 in the afternoon, the time appointed for the meeting at the hospital, a large crowd had gathered. Following the result of the deputation the unemployed agreed to await developments.