WOMEN OPPOSE DUES
UNION SECRETARY BOOED (P.A.) PALMERSTON N., March 22. A poor reception was . accorded a union secretary from Wellington when he visited a lingerie factory in Palmerston North in an endeavour to persuade 40 part-time women workers to pay union fees.
The secretary tried to address the workers, but was greeted with such a chorus of catcalls and booing that he had to give up and left the factory without having achieved his purpose. The women, who work only three to six hours a day, have offered to pay half the fees, but the union is not prepared to accept this..—
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22593, 23 March 1948, Page 5
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103WOMEN OPPOSE DUES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22593, 23 March 1948, Page 5
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