WILL NOT AGREE TO RELIEF WAGES
EX-SOLDIERS’ DECISION r PHAT they*had setter spend their funds as hitherto, and have full labourers' wages paid to men, was the decision of a returned soldiers’ meeting yesterday. A very large muster of unemployed ex-soldiers presented themselves in the Chamber of Commerce Hall to discuss whether to throw in £I,OOO from the Canteen Fund with £2,500 from the City Council to get a pound for pound subsidy from the Government toward relief work on the War Memorial Museum. The arrangement offered was that one-third of the men needed on the job should be returnd soldiers registered with the association. Of the others drawn from the Labour Bureau, said the chairman, Mr. A. C. A. Sexton, half of them would also i e returned soldiers. Various speakers spoke very feelingly against the relief wages of 5s a day for single men and 12s a day for married men, which was being offr-ed on such relief works. Eventually it was decided that it would be better to go on as hitherto, subsidising local body work at full rates of pay.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 124, 16 August 1927, Page 13
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