A NEW UNION.
AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN. MR WALSH'S EXPLANATION. (OXITXD FUISS ÜBOCUTIOB—SI XLXOTKO TBIBOBAPH—COmiOHT.) MELBOURNE. November 8. Application lias been made to the Commonwealth Industrial Registrar for the registration of a new union, called the Australian Seamen's Union, which is commencing with 400 members. Mr Alfred Woodsford, of Adelaide, is mentioned in the register as the firßt general president and Mr Thomas King as the general secretary, while Mr Thomas Walsh is merely shown as an ordinary membor. Mr Walsh declared that the rules of the new union would give the members absolute control over tneir officials and cover bona fide seamen only. The union would not shelter all kinds of characters. A large number of members of the existing Seamen's Union are joining the new organisation.—Australian Press Association.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19463, 9 November 1928, Page 11
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128A NEW UNION. Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19463, 9 November 1928, Page 11
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