WHICH UNION?

Evening Star, Issue 22595, 12 March 1937, Page 8

WHICH UNION?

AN ENGROSSING POINT THREE CLAIMS FOR MEMBERSHIP Some curious incidents have arisen from the legislation making unionism compulsory, but none is more amusing than the one which resulted in the election of a woman as a member of a northern Waterside Workers’ Union. She is the only, woman waterside worker in the Dominion'. Before the Clerks’ Union was formed she argued successfully that as she was employed by the Waterside Workers’ Union, and was engaged on their work only, she was, therefore, entitled to membership. Industrial law experts consider this the most amusing case of unionism. But there is a no less diverting situation in Dunedin over a than employed by an old-established stock and station firm, carrying on the agencies usually associated with such a business. The question now exerting the minds of the union secretaries is: What union should ho join? The Stock and Station Clerks’ Union claims that he rightfully belongs std their ranks. The Insurance Clerks’ Union considers that as insurance if one of his duties ho must pay his membership duo to it. And the General Clerks’ Union is pressing its claims for his membership. Meanwhile the man himself is sitting back, watching the “dog fight” for possession of his membership.