WORKING OF UNIONS
A CIRCULAR, RESENTED.
(BT TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
DUNEDIN, This Day. At a meeting of representatives of trades unions to discuss a circular from the Minister of Labour, dealing with the internal administration of unions, a resolution was ':arried "that section 3 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act already provides for the keeping of union accounts in an efficient and simple manner, and suggestions from .the Minister can only be regarded as irritating, vexatious, and uncalled for. We cannot recognise the government's right to interfere with the internal business of unions, and deplore the action of the Minister in endeavouring to introduce by legislation anything that will interfere with the liberty of an individual union or association." Regarding a circular from the Commissioner of Taxes, asking for the names and addresses of members of a union it was decided (o enter an emphatic protest against the Commissioner's endeavour to have unions do work which rightly belongs to his Department
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 27, 31 July 1924, Page 8
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162WORKING OF UNIONS Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 27, 31 July 1924, Page 8
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