UNIONS AND PICTURES.
Recently, before the Supreme Court, | an interesting case was argued regarding i the power of an industrial union to in- J elndo in, its' rules provisions for sick benefits. In the course of. the argument, ' counsel debated the length to which a j union might go in conducting bnsiness. -, The union, it - was stated, conJd own land within a limited area and could erect a building upon it.' Further, it might let the hall for meetings, but it could not manage a picture show or enter regularly into the entertaining business. Counsel for the union admitted that a picture-show would be.beyond a union's functions, and he regarded such an illustration as an extreme one. j Apparently, however, it is not so ex- i treme as might be imagined. The Wellington Waterside Workers' Union has for some years hod a band, financed by union members. More recently the New Zealand Variety Entertainers' Club has been formed principally to provide en^ tertaiiiment for waterside workers and their wives. And now the hope has been expressed that the club may some day own a cinematograph and give free picture shows to' watersiders a-frd their : families. ■ . ' I
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 48, 25 August 1917, Page 10
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