WHAT CONSTITUTES A UNIONIST.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 9 December 1913, Page 5

WHAT CONSTITUTES A UNIONIST.

(Received Dec. 9, 9.20 a.m ) • SYDNEY, /Dec. 9. Commenting on Mr Poster's statement .that .the men working on. the JSew Zealand wharves are registered under the .Arbitration Act. Mr Hushes. says: "If he will pardon me for-say-ing so he seems utterly unable to understand what Unionism is. Registration under the Arbitration Act doe's not make, a unionist; it affects tlto legal status of unionists, but a man has to be a'unionist first, independently of the Act. That being so, the-men now handling cargo on the , wharvw are not, m our opinion, unionists at aL» T^, re is the dispute, in. a nutshell; The employers regard arbitra-tion-unionists as the men who ought to do the work; we consider that the waterside workers and- Federation members ought to do it. That, among other things, is the dispute which we ask to have submitted to arbitration. We won't take Mr Poster's decision. as to who ought to do the work as nnal,,but will take an arbitrator's decision." , . T