TRADE UNIONS' FUNDS
NOT FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES
THE PRIME MINISTER'S
EXPLANATION.
(Fbom Ode Own Correspondent.)
WELLINGTON, July 8.
Tho question of the right of trades unions to use their funds for political "purposes was raised by the deputation of timber workers which waited upon the Prime Minister to-day. It was stated that some difficulty had arisen in this respect. Mr Massey, in replying, stated that the expenditure of union hinds for other than union purposes had been a burning ques T tion in the Old Country more than here, and he instanced the famous Osborne case. The Arbitration Act provided for the registration of unions only for the purposes of the Act. A trades union was not intended to bo a political association, because men of all shades of political opinion were members of trades unions. It was hardly fair to allow a majority to use fands to which a minority were compelled to subscribe, for purposes of which the minority did not approve. That was the position.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16121, 9 July 1914, Page 8
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