WAREHOUSE CLERKS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143587, 28 August 1911, Page 7

WAREHOUSE CLERKS.

INTERVIEW A MINISTER,

Per Press AssoeiationWELLINGTON, August 28, About 100 clerical assistants waited on the Minister of Labour to-day to protest against being included in the union of merchants 1 assistants and to suggest they should bo given power by an amendment of tbc law of making such a protest officially before the court. . After the principal spokesman had stated his ease 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.' The deputation said it did not object to the formation of a union, but there was a great difference between manual labour in a warehouse and clerical assistance. They were not fighting unionism as a principle. , The Minister said he had received information that the clerical departments were going to be struck out of the scope of the union. Ho promised to go into the whole mutter and believed the power novy sought already existed. He however, would not promise to provide the power if it did not exist, as he did not wish to frustrate unionism in any way.