NEW SEAMEN'S UNION.
AN "IMPOSSIBLE", BODY. HAVELOCK WILSON'S RIDICULE. A. and N.Z. LONDON, Dec. 30. The report received from Australia regarding the optimistic ■ anticipations expressed by Messrs. Tom Walsh and Lyddal in regard to the proposed new British Seamen's Union is ridiculed by Mr. J. Havelock Wilson, president of the British Seamens and Firemen's Federation.
" Their claim that their union already consists of nearly 4000 members at Tilbury is absurd," Mr. Wilson says, "because the residential seamen do not exceed 400, and not one of them is enrolled in the new union.
" In any case, the new union is, both numerically and financially, impossible, because our union already covers the interests of 100,000 British seamen, firemen, cooks and stewards, with funds aggregating £300,000, besides £400,000 to their credit in the National Health Insurance Fund. "So far from the overseas strike prejudicing our union, 20,000 new members joined in 1925. We contributed £IO,OOO to the distressed dependents of the overseas strikers, while an aippeal to Mr. Walsh for assistance remained unanswered."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19215, 2 January 1926, Page 9
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170NEW SEAMEN'S UNION. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19215, 2 January 1926, Page 9
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