TRADES UNIONS.
STATEMENT RESENTED
Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Oct. 3,
“Absurd and misleading” was how men in Labour circles this morning described the figures quoted bv Mr F. W. Doidge, the defeated National candidate in the Manukau by-election, to show that “by the time the General Election comes the Socialists will have a fighting fund of more than £1,000,000.” They were in a quandary to know how Mr Doidge arrived at tho estimate that 450,000 workers had been forced to become trade 'unionists, the Law permitting them to contribute up to one shilling weekly. Officials said that on the last available returns the membership of the unions was only 161,850 to-day. Labour supporters resent the suggestion that union fees, or a large proportion of them, are being diverted to political channels. There was nothing compulsory about the unions affiliating with the New Zealand Labour Party, and some of the biggest unions, including the cooks’ and stewards’, and seamen’s, were not affiliated. If the majority of the members of a union wished to do so they had the right to affiliate even with the National Party.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 263, 5 October 1936, Page 2
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185TRADES UNIONS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 263, 5 October 1936, Page 2
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