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WELLINGTON WATERSIDERS CURB PUT ON MEMBERSHIP DANGER OF SWELLING NUMBERS [ Per Press Association. ] WELLINGTON, Nov. 26. Eighty-four new members have been admitted to the Wellington \\ aterside Workers’ Un.on. There were nearly 3000 applications for membership but the executive considered that if the union’s strength were greatly increased it would deprive members of a reascnable amount of work and detrimentally disturb the conditions generally. “J fail to understand why the Waterside Workers’ Union should be expected to absorb any number of men at any given time, or all the time,’ said Mr. E. Can ham, president of the union. Mr. Can ham added that if membership had not been restricted conditions on the wharf during the depression, when there were large numbers of men out of work, would have been impossible. Men who ha\ e given consistent service o\ er a long period of years were entitled to pr election.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 281, 27 November 1936, Page 8
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