WOMEN UNIONISTS.
An interesting innovation in tradeunion policy is reported from Dunedin, where the Suburban Drivers' Union has resolved that members' wives shall in future be full members of the Union, and shall have an individual vote, on all questions. Since the women suffer first and most when their husbands go out on strike, there would (in the opinion of the Cliristehurch Press), appear to be some justice in. the proposal -that they should have a voice in the declaration of a strike and the power to call it off. But if Mr Massey had introduced the idea, it is entirely certain that his enemies would have quite exhausted the stock of abusive epithets which they employ against him in lieu of rational criticism. Since the Union, however, decided at the same time to join the Red Feds., the women's votes will be just as useless as the men's, for the cardinal feature of the.Federation's constitution is its denial of anything like real freedom to individual unions or unionists.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 24 September 1913, Page 4
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