TRADES UNION LEADER
DEATH AT EIGHTY-EIGHT MR. ANDREW COLLINS (Per Presß Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. The death has occurred at the age of 88 years of Mr. Andrew Collins, who has been described as the “father of trades unionism in New Zealand. Mr. Collins gave 45 years of service to the Labour movement up to his retirement in 1930. About 1875 he and others formed a bread bakers’ union, the first union ir, the Dominion. In 1898 he was the first Labour representative from New Zealand to attend a Labour congress in England, In New Zealand Mr. Collins did extensive work in organising unions.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19480, 12 November 1937, Page 3
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