TRADE UNION FUNDS.
PROTECTING THE WORKER. ACTION BY GOVERNMENT. (By Wire—Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington, Last Night. Cases of embezzlement by trades unionists were becoming rather too numerous, th© Hon. G. J. Anderson remarked in the House of Representatives to-day. A Labour member: No more numerous than in the Labour Department. “I am not insinuating that there is more embezzlement among unionists than among other sections of the community,” added the Minister, “but I say the average worker has to be protected, and the men who are running the unions know ail about book-keeping and the men who pay their subscriptions every month do not. My idea was to devise a system of book-keeping to niotect the unionist from possible defalcations, not that I was concerned with how the union spent its money, but that the unionist should know how ths executive spent the money. I could quote cases where we put on accountants to investigate. One reported that it was impossible to find ou« the state of the accounts. That is all there is in it. Nothing has to do with political causes.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1924, Page 4
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