UNEMPLOYED STRIKE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 183, 28 March 1932, Page 5

UNEMPLOYED STRIKE

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WAIMAK ARIKI KIVER WQRKS SCHEME DECLARED "BLACK" MEETING IN CHRISTCHURCH

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CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday. A pieeting of unemployed workers to-day declared "black" the schenle of works to be car-ried out by thq Waimakariri River Trust in conjunctiqn with the Unemployment Bqard, o,n which works, married men were offered 37/6 for a 40-hours week. A eentral strike committee and p.ther committees were set up and the meeting determined to do all in its power to prevent Any unemployed workers who do no.t respect the decision of the meeting from leaving Christchurch on Tuesday morning for . the works camp. i There was also some talk of picke^t- , ing the Labour Department's offiee m Christchurch. However, Mr. H. W. Harris, engipeer for the River Trust work, in a statement later. in the afternoon, said that many of thp men engaged for. the River Trust work had expressqd their inteption of accepting the wageA offeredV The men complain.ed that the meeting had not b.epn cqnfined tq men jto, be 4-Taftqd t^ese \yorks, ]bttt heen opened to other nnemrJpyed men 1 who cquld carry Rostile resqlutioihs witffout themselves being affepted by them.