UNION MEMBERS RESIGN
[Pei; Umted Press Association]
WELLINGTON, June 10.
Twelve members of the Wellington : Typographical Union who are employed in the Government Printing Office are resigning from membership on the ground that the union is becoming a political orgamsation, in that it voted money to the strike funds, „ ~ . . , A deputation uvm the union to-d«y asked the Hon. F. M.. B. Fisher, in chitrc'd o£ tin* office, to lA&tst t&afc udl Government employees in the office connect id with tire union bo compelled to b* members of the union. They darned the allegation that the union was becoming a political organisation. Mr Fisher, in rep:y, said that neither he nor the Government would insist on compulsory unionism for Government cm. plovers. Under the rules of fho anion tlx© members had a right to resign, and he would do nothing to deprive them of that right- He was willing, however, ic holy to settle the diffeieuaen.
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Evening Star, Issue 15515, 10 June 1914, Page 4
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155UNION MEMBERS RESIGN Evening Star, Issue 15515, 10 June 1914, Page 4
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