FEW ON STRIKE
(Press. Assn.-
practical failure of christchurch stqppage MOST OF MEN. AT WORK
— By Telegraph — Copyrlght).
CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. Of the 1520 unemployed men who should have commenced work on relief j'obs in Christchurch, Lyttelton a'nd environs this morning, only 315 responded to the call to strike as a protest against the new rates of pay. There was little picketing and the police organisation in preventing it was very effici'ent. The biggest groups of strikers were those employed by the Railway Dspartment Of 166 men employed, 106 struck. Eighty of the 106 were employed in clearing weeds from the Middleton Railway yards which are not now used. At Lyttelton 43 out of 53 struck. Forty of 268 employed by the City Council j'oined the strike, although they were paid, with the council subsidy, 14/6 a day. At Riccarton, 25 relief workers employed by the Borough all struck. The strikers represent only a small pro- j portion of those employed.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 225, 17 May 1932, Page 5
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