Poverty and Relief Workers
CIVIC PROTEST AGAINST REDUCED ALLOCATIONS. t Per Press Association. WAIPCJKURAU, Dec. 8. The Chamber of Commerce unemployment advisory committee, as a matter of grave urgency, has asked the Government and the Unemployment Board to make up tho relief pay to all classes to the maximum scale. It states that the reduced allocations are inconsistent with the principle of equality ,of sacrifice or the spirit of seasonable goodwill, particularly so in the Waipukurau district, where married men generally are cut one and a-half days weekly and a few with upwards of three children one and three-quarter days. File committee declares emphatically that it is impossible for married men to make essential housing, food and clothing ends meet on 16s 9d, or 26s 3d for larger families. Reductions aggregating over 33 1-3 per cent, last week are regarded as unjustly excessive.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7026, 9 December 1932, Page 8
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143Poverty and Relief Workers Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7026, 9 December 1932, Page 8
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