COMMUNIITY FUND FOR UNEMPLOYED

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 78, 23 June 1927, Page 1

COMMUNIITY FUND FOR UNEMPLOYED

WELLINGTON PROPOSAL APPEAL TO CITIZENS Press Association. WELLINGTON, To-day. THE Civic League, with the hearty support of the Mayor, Mr. G. A. Troup, who is at his wit’s end regarding the unemployment problem proposes to set up a community fund. A resolution has been passed that steps be taken by way of appealing to the general body of citizens to all all they can individually, and through the various societies, to further two objects: First, to push forward any small works by which deserving men may be employed; and second, that everyone who is in employment should contribute some portion of his means toward the establishment of a community fund, which will go toward finding employment for an addiitonal number of men. AWARD WAGES UNEMPLOYED’S DEMAND WELLINGTON, To-day. A meeting of 50 unemployed men yesterday decided to set up an organisation to fight against work at less than award rates, and to set up a fund for that purpose. They are seeking the co-operation of all sections of labour. The chief carried was “That we the unemployed workers of Wellington, realising that as long as we remani unorganised we are a menace to organised labour, call on the workers of Wellington to support us in a demand for trade union rates or maintenance. We realise, further, that with the support of organised labour in Wellington our figlit against “scab” wages can be more effectively waged, and we call upon trade unions to give our organisation recognition and support.”