A NEW JOB
GOVERNMENT OFFICERS
COLLECT LABOUR FUNDS
State officers in certain departments employing labour unionists have been requested to collect the union membership fees from the employees under their supervision. In the case of the New Zealand Workers' Union, to cite an instance to which the attention of a Dominion representative has been drawn the membership fee is £l, plus ss, the extra amount being earmarked; 2s for the funds of the Labour Party's official organ, The Standard; 2s for the Labour Party's election campaign fund; and Is for the distressed workers' fund.
"My men never see The Standard," remarked a State officer on the subject, "and what they will say when asked to subscribe to it I don't know. . And as for the subscription to the party's fighting fund, some are certain to object. In any case. I think it is an invidious position for an officer of authority in the Public Service to be placed in." "Can't you protest?" "These are instructions from the head office of the department," he said.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19555, 10 February 1938, Page 7
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174A NEW JOB Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19555, 10 February 1938, Page 7
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