MORE UNIONISTS
New Zealand Increase By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, April 20. Expressing themselves as well pleased with the Labour conference which concluded at: Wellington yesterday, the Auckland delegates said to-day that since March,• 1936. the number of unionists in New Zealand had increased by over 114,000. It was reported to the conference that there were now 195,000 members of unions in Now Zealand, compared with 80,920 in March. 1936. This huge increase was attributed to compulsory unionism in cases where the employers were covered by awards, and also to ithe number of new unions formed since the Labour Government assumedoffice, many of them covering a wide field of industry, such as the clerical workers.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 175, 21 April 1937, Page 12
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114MORE UNIONISTS Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 175, 21 April 1937, Page 12
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