RELIEF CONDITIONS
CENSURE MOTION MOVED ! DURING IMPREST DEBATE Wellington, Thursday While the Imprest Supply Bill was before the House to.-night, the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. M. J. Savage, j said that it was impossible for re-j lief workers to earn their salt on the, present rates of pay. If the men refused to accept the rates they were •debarred from receiving any relief work. He rnoved the following amendment : "That this House records with regret that the Government has failed to deal effectively with the question of unemployment which is causing so much destitution and distress. It expressed disapproval of the present relief work system and strongly condemns the proposal to introduce piecework to jobs earried on under the relief work system. It further expressed the opinion that the time has arrived for the applying of standard wages and conditions to all relief woa*k." Mr. Parry Gets Warm Mr. W. Parry (Labour, Auckland Central) speaking during the debate on the Bill, complained that the Government had failed to deal witn the unemployment problem. The state of affairs at present was little slaort of scandalous. He asked how long the Prime Minister thought that the unemployed anen and women were going to be satisfied with the le.ft-off clothing of the rest of the commnnity and how long were the people going to stand for the "slave camps" which were "little short of criminal incubators." Not only were the unemployed being forced to work for a mere pittance, but now the Government was trying to force piece-work on them. He declared that if he were a relief worker to-day, he would be a source of annoyance to the Government. "I am ' not going to knuckle down to this sort of thing for another two years," he added. "I will probably have to do a bit of a term in gaol, but I won't mind that. I did not shirk it before and I hope that I will not shirk it again. I do not like it, but I will not shirk it." The debate is still proceeding.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 673, 27 October 1933, Page 5
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346RELIEF CONDITIONS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 673, 27 October 1933, Page 5
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