UNION FEES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE
SECRETARY’S LETTERS TO EMPLOYERS (United Press Association) HASTINGS, October 28. Members of the Hawke's Bay Builders’ and General Labourers’ Union will have to pay union fees annually in advance. Registration for an amendment to the union rules to provide for this has been granted and the new conditions were brought into force today. The secretary of the union sent out notices to employers earlier this month warning them that the fe4s had to be paid annually in advance and stating they were liable to prosecution if they employed workers who had not paid the fees. A week later the Minister of Labour (the Hon. H. T. Armstrong) sent a telegram to the inspector of factories at Napier (Mr W. J. Berryman) to the effect that the amendment to the rules had not been registered and could not be enforced. Mr Armstrong gave instructions for the employers to ignore the secretary’s letter. The secretary has now sent another letter to the employers advising them that they are liable to prosecution for employing workers who have not paid their fees in advance now that the amendment has been registered.
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Southland Times, Issue 23652, 29 October 1938, Page 6
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