CAMPAIGN FUND
DIVERSION OF UNION FEES DENIED By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, October 3. "Absurd and misleading,” was how men in Labour circles this morning described the figures quoted oy Mr F. W. Doidge, the defeated National c ndidate for Manukau, to show that “by the time the General Election comes the Socialists will have a fighting fund of more than £1,000,000.” They were in a quandary to know how Mr Doidge arrived at his estimate that 450,000 workers had been forced to become trade unionists, who weie permitted under the law to contribute U‘ to one shilling weekly. Officials said that on the last available returns the membership of unions was only 161,850 to-day. Labour supporters resented the suggestion that union fees, or a large proportion of them, were being diverted intr political channels. There was nothing compulsory about unions affiliating with the New Zealand. Labour Party, and some of the biggest unions, including the Cooks’ and Stewards’ and Seamen’s Unions were not affiliated, If the majority of the members of a union wished to do so, they had every right to affiliate, even with the National Party. »
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20540, 5 October 1936, Page 8
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188CAMPAIGN FUND Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20540, 5 October 1936, Page 8
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