BRITISH TRADE UNION SALARY BILL £1,000,000
LONDON, May 14. A total of approximately £1,000,000 spent on trade union salaries during !, the year of the general strike, is the' » astonishing news disclosed by a return just issued by the chief registrar of * friendly societies. With a membership of 100,000 the > unions spent, during the same period, ~ nearly £ICO,COO on politics. The statistics arc compiled from the accounts of . 140 trade unions, many of tho latter, including most of the miners’ unions, 4 having paid nothing from their political funds during the general and the miners' strikes.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16706, 25 July 1928, Page 9
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95BRITISH TRADE UNION SALARY BILL £1,000,000 Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16706, 25 July 1928, Page 9
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