UNION RATES ARE NOW DEMANDED.
UNEMPLOYED IN WELLINGTON PROTEST. Ter Press Association. WELLINGTON. June 3. A meeting of about 250 unemployed yesterday adopted the following resolu tions: — 1. —-This meeting of unemplo3*ed workers of Wellington is of opinion that the inward flow of immigration should cease whilst the problem of unemployment remains unsolved, and that the Labour Party and trade union movement should make the position clear in the Old Country. 2. —That we. the unemployed workers of Wellington, register our emphatic protest against the threatening and dictatorial attitude of the Prime Mini ster in reference to employing men at less than the trade union rate, and that we reaffirm our previous decision to insist on trade union rates of pay, and call on organised labour to support us in this direction and to assist us in what is essentially a working class fight.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17863, 3 June 1926, Page 1
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144UNION RATES ARE NOW DEMANDED. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17863, 3 June 1926, Page 1
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