THE COLD SHOULDER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 260, 2 November 1928, Page 7

THE COLD SHOULDER.

"BRICKIES" EJECT WINSTON.

• (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, November 1. The executive of the .Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers decided that Mr. Winston Churchill was ineligible for membership of the union because he had not intended to earn his living as a bricklayer. EXPULSION DECLINED. CHURCHILL'S BEPLY. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 1. Mr. Winston Churchill has written to the Bricklayers' Union emphasising tha he is not disposed to accept his expulsion. He hopes that the matter will be further considered, "as it is injurious to tne interests of the union if doubt is thrown on the validity of a signature ot authority of responsible officers.

Mr. Wineton Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, joined the Building Trade Workers' Union. In his summer vacation he helped to build a house on his estate by laying bricks. Mr Lane, Mayor of Battersea, invited Mr. Churchill to join the Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers, and Mr. Churchill coneented to become a member. Later, However, an objection was raised against tne membership of Mr. Churchill,, and it was demanded that his membership fee ot &/ be returned.