LABOUR'S FIGHTING FUND
STATEMENT RESENTED 'ABSURD AND MISLEADING' (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, (his day. "Absurd and misleading" was how men in Labour circles this morning ticbribed the figures quoted by -Mr. 1. 11. Doide;c. the defeated National candidate for Mnnukau, to show that "by the time the. general election comes the Socialists will "have- a fighting fund of more than £I,CCO,CCO." They were in a quandary to know bow Mr. Doidge arrived al his estimate that 450.000 workers had been forced to beconic trade -unionists, the law permitting them to contribute up to Is a week. . Officials said that on the last avail able returns, the membership oi unions was only 161.850. Labour .supporters resent the suggestion that union fees,_ or a' large proportion of I hem, are being diverted to political channels. There was nothing compulsory about unions affiliating" with the New "Zealand Labour Party, and some of the biggest unions, including tho cooks and stewards" and seamen's were not affiliated. If a majority oi the members of a union wished to do so, they had Hie right even to affiliate with the" National Party.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19137, 5 October 1936, Page 13
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186LABOUR'S FIGHTING FUND Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19137, 5 October 1936, Page 13
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