FARM WORKERS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17390, 30 January 1917, Page 3

FARM WORKERS.

UNION REGISTERED. [Per ' Press Association] WELLINGTON, January 29. The Agricultural and Pastoral Workers' Union has been granted registration under tho Trade Union Act. The rules provide for inclusion in the membership of all classes of workers engaged in agricultural and pastoral pursuits. It will be remembered that this was one of the points 'or refusing the union registration under the Arbitration Act. An important provision is that the union may become part of the Australian Workers' Union, a principle ondorsed by the Shearers' Union from which the hew union sprang.