TRADES UNIONS AND POLITICS

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 213, 5 September 1912, Page 5

TRADES UNIONS AND POLITICS

THE OSBORKE JUDGMENT. ITS REVERSAL DEMANDED.

HAVELOCK-WILSON'S BOMB.

LONDON", September 4. At the Newport Congress a large majority of the delegates demanded a tcI'ersal of the Osborue judgment. Mr. Havelock-WiJeou (Firemen and Seamen's Union) said that it was important to get the Home Rule, Welsh Church Disestablishment, and Franchise Bills out of the way and to leave the Trade Union Bill until nest cession. Not one man in ten, he said, cared a rap about the Osborne judgment. He asked >Fho was responsible for the judgment. They were not satisfied with trade unions having the right to elect Parliamentary representatives, but they insisted on the compulsory levy to "force members of anions to pay for a political policy with which they did not agree. 1 hoy asked a man to join a union for trade uni.iTi purposes, and then smuggled a resolution through saying. "Wo nrn going to charge you 1/ a year. If you no not pay if «-c will prevent you following your occupation." That" be declared, was the cause of the trouble. Uproar. I When the. elections came, he said, the present Labour members ought to hold their present seats without winninother?. a The railway clerks' delegates twitted the Labour members of Parliament with ! Having waned in their enthusiasm over I the reversal of the Osborne judgment since they obtained a Parliamentary