MARRIED MEN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 274, 14 July 1932, Page 5

MARRIED MEN

(Press Assn.—

WILL NOT GO INTO CAMPS

-By Telegraph— Copyright)

HAMILTON, Wednesday. A meeting of the Hamilton Unemployed Workers' Movement to-day 'ed to support any man who fuses to go to a married men's camp, and to establish a fund through a levy and other means for their sustenance. The chairman, Mr. J. Ritchie, said that • 30 married men had received notico from the local Labour Bureau that they had been seleeted to nroceed to a married men's camp. The men were also notified, said Mr Ritchie, that if they refused they v/ould x*eceive no more work at the local office. It was a case of starving rnexx into subjugation. The secretary, Mr. D. J. McGill, stated that the Minister of Employment, the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, had publicly given a definite assurance that no marx'ied xnen would be forced to go into camp. Oue of those present said that in the camps men and their wives had to wait six weeks for pay day: It was an impossible situation. At one camp he was at the nearest a loaf which could be bought in grocer was charging them ls 9d for Hamilton for lOd. Other? things were in proportion. How could one keep two homes going under such cireumstances, especially on suck meagre wages. On being put to the vote it was. decided to back any unempioyed men, whether members "of the movement or not, who refused to work in a corhpulsory camp; to carry on work as usual, and to establish a fund to support the men affected by a levy of 6d a week on each relief worker arid by devotixxg 95 per cent. of the profit of socials and dances to it.