WHAT’S THE USE OF UNIONS.?
'Wellington General Laborers have just had a very oompiimeuiary letter from a widow. Her husband was killed by accident, and the only compensation the employers were prepared to give was sympathy. The union secured T;&b0 after an expensive lawsuit. > <w * * • *
There is not a single interest of tho workers which cannot be better provided for by united action. The day of going it alone has long ago gone by. Accident and death caunot bo provided for except by collective action. When all men and women collectively undertake to provide against accident the long and expensive lawsuit will cease to be necDenary. ■••• • • •
But tho union is just as necessary in the fight to make the suit unnecessary ns it is to make the fight so long as the fight is necessary.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8189, 2 August 1912, Page 4
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