VULGAR UNIONISM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 11, 29 August 1911, Page 5

VULGAR UNIONISM.

CUFF AND COLLAR PRIDE. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, August 28. About o,ne hundred clerical assistants waited on the Minister of Labour to-day to protest against being included in tho union of merchants’ assistants, and to suggest they should be given power by an amendment of the law of making such a protest officially before the Court. After the principal spokesman had stated his case the proceedings resolved themselves into an argument between some members of Parliament present and the Minister on the Arbitration Act in general and unionism in particular. Tho deputation said it did not object to the formation of a union, hut there was a great difference between manual labour in a warehouse and clerical assistance. They were not lighting unionism as a principle. The Minister said lie had received information that tho clerical departments wore going to be struck out of the scope of the union. He promised to go into the whole matter, and believed the power now sought already existed. He, however, would not promise to provide the power if it did not exist, as lie did not wish to frustrate unionism in any way.