COMPULSORY UNIONISM.
A PROTEST. Mr. H. C. Tewsley, director-of Sargood, Son, and Ewen, has received the following letter (dated August' 18), with reference to the proposed demands by the union of warehouse and store employees: "I liavo the honour to inform you that a mass meeting of the staff was held last evening to protest against tho in- ! elusion of the employees of the wholesale soft goods firms in the Wellington Amalgamated Employees' Union, at' which the following resolution was carried unanimously' That this meeting of employees emphatically protest against' the attempt to have employees of wholesale soft goods houses included in the Wellington Amalgamated Kniployeos' Union, and resent any such interference by this or any other body—it being considered inimical to the existing satisfactory relations between employers and employees.' —FI. F IJpham, chairman." After the meeting a letter for presentation to the Arbitration Court, protesting against' the inclusion of wholesale soft goods employees in the proposed union, was signed by 98 per cent nf Messrs. Sargood, Son, and Ewen's staff.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1212, 22 August 1911, Page 6
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