THE LABOUR BILL.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —Last evening I listened to a long dreary debate on the Labour Bill now before the House. There seems to bo one important question which both sides seem to have missed. If the Bill is passed, employers will have to employ only members of a union. It does not state how many unions a labourer may belong to, but it does provide that os must be paid to join a union and one subscription of Is per week. If he does not pay this he gets no work. Then there may be no work for all freezing works unions, or builders, tailors, or numerous other unions, and when work for those unions is scarce, before one could get a job at another trade he would have to join that union, too. In some cases a man would have to belong to a number of unions to get work all the year.—Yours, etc., 1 B.H.J. April 23, 1936.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 123, 24 April 1936, Page 8
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