“PRETTY HOT."
“By Jove, some of these unions are pretty hot,” said & working man to a passenger on an outbound tram car yesterday. “A chap I know, with a wife and five kiddies, has been out of work for nearly three months, doing a day’s work only now and again. Every day for weeks he called on So-and So (men tioning a big employer of labour), and at last he was told he could start work next day; but he would have to join the union. He came to me, and a-skld how the deuce he was going to get five bob for union fees when he hadn’t done a tap for weeks. I gave him the five bob, and told him he could give it back when things looked better. Off he went, and paid the money. Then he was told that, although he had joined the union, they had a “waiting list,” and he couldn’t take that job. It would have to be taken by one of the financial members, and he would need to take his turn. I reckon that’s pretty hot, don’t you? Heaven help us if we ever got a Labour Government. We’ll be worse off than ever! ’* Then the car stopped, and the talk about unionism stopped, too.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18208, 15 July 1927, Page 9
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