The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1911. A NEW UNIONISM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 34, 25 September 1911, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1911. A NEW UNIONISM.

o During the last twelve months the United Labourers’ Union of South Australia has. been responsible for a number of strikes of railway labourers and other workmen in that State, as well as for a prolonged struggle between the fruit pickers and growers at Ilenmark. The secretary (Mr J. Dale), who was recently on a visit to Sydney, informed a reporter that the organisation had experienced a year of marvellous growth. “Wo are now the biggest union in South Australia,” he said, “for we have 5333 members—the number announced at our recent annual conference. In less than three years we have leaped from the position of a paltry, craft, masons’ labourers’ organisation of less than 300 strong, to what we are to-day.” Mr Dale was perfectly candid as to the object of the U.L.U. “We represent the new outlook,” he remarked, “One feature of our organisation is that anybody ca'n lie a member, provided ho is a wage-earner. We intend to consolidate the unionism of South Australia, and to that end we iro teaching the workers that they are, every one, on the same economic level —w age-slaves all—-whether they swing a pick or whether they ho among the 10-callcd skilled labourers who delude themselves that they stand in a class above and beyond the rank and file. In our rules we have it set forth olainly that our ultimate object is the abolition of the wage system, and one of our most valued provisions is that no member of Parliament can hold office in the union.”