UNION OF CLERKS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 94, 20 April 1912, Page 9

UNION OF CLERKS.

"THE PALM TO HIM WHO MEKITS IT." "To maintain the existing amicable relations between employers and employed" is the object of the. newly-registered Wellington Clerks' Union and "Palmaon gui meruit ferat" is its motto. It is the outcome of a, pioteet against tho inclusion of clerks in the Wellington Amalgamated Society of Merchants' Assistants as "wage-earners, manual, ox- clerical." The clerks thereupon formed a union of their own as soon as certain legal formalities were dkposM of. The registration of the new union was effected on Thursday under the title of the Wellington Society of United Merchants' Clerks in the Wholesale Grocery, Wine ajid Spirit, Seed, Produce, and Wool Merchants' Offices' Industrial Union of Workers. Any pereon employed as a clerk in any of the warehouses indicated in the title of the union may become a, member of this union on written application to the secretary, accompanied by the entrance fee of 2s. ' Levies shall be as may be determined by the executive from time to time, and shall not exceed two shillings per annum. The union shall be governed by an executive, which shall be the trustees of the union, and ehall have control of tho property of the union, and shall invest the funde not required for immediate use as it deems advisable. j For the purposes of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908, and amendments . thereof, the union may be represented before the- board or the court by such person or persons as may be appointed in that behalf by the executive, under the seal of the union. Industrial agreements and any other instruments &hall be made in buch. mode as' the executive may determine, and shall be executed on behalf of the union under its common teal by two membeis of the -executive that may be appointed for that purpose ; provided that no industrial agreement'shall 'be entered into until three-fourths of the members have* signified iheir approval in Writing. The first president' of tha union k Mr. George T. Hall, and the eccigtary Mr. W§Jter H t Waxrsn. " . " '