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WORK DECLARED BLACK AND PICKETS POSTED PROTEST AGAINST CONDITIONS Palmerston N., Monday. Following a decision reached last . Thursday by the Striks Committee of 1 the Unemployed Workers' Movement to deelare "black" all work upon the • new conditions involving longer hours for the same pay, pickets were sent out by the organisation this morning. Numbers of men in the eity gangs either did not start relief work or ceased shortly after starting, the majority being single men. Quotas for | country works were also affected. A ! number of married men who sought : to go to work were prevented from doing so as the loads were not suffi- j cient for lorries with the single men absenting themselves. Later a large deputation waited on the Unemployment Committt^ and presented several demands, including the abolition of eamps, also 12s 6d a day with no stand-down week, with sustenance payments to all. The committee decided to forward these demands to the Unemployment Board.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 332, 20 September 1932, Page 5
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