TRADES UNIONS AND POLITICS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 5 September 1913, Page 5

TRADES UNIONS AND POLITICS.

' 'FINEST ' IN VISSTMENT EVER MADE."

BY CABLE—PRES3 ASSOCIATION -COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Sept. 3. At the Trades' Union Congress, Mr Harvey, a Miners' Union delegate, moved and the Congress' adopted a resolution, emphasising the vital importance of the ballot which is proceeding under ihe Trades Union Act of (L 913, and strongly recommending all trades unionists to vote in favor of unions undertaking political action. Mr Harvey descried the miners as pioneers in political activity, and said the money expended in that direction was the finest inivestment ever made. (Cheers).