AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN.
NEW UNION FORMED. WITH 400 MEMBERS. STATEMENT BY WALSH. (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian Press Association). (Received Nov. 8, 10.10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Nov. 8. Application has been made to the Commonwealth Industrial Registrar for the registration of a new union called the Australian Seamen's Union, which is commencing with 400 members. Mr Alfred Woodsford, of Adelaide, is mentioned in the register as the first seneral president, and Mr Thomas King as general secretary, while Mr Thomas Walsh is merely shown as an ordinary member. Mr Walsh declared that the rules of the new union would give members absolute control over the officials and cover bona flde seamen only. The union would not shelter all kinds of characters. A large number of members of the existing Seamen's Union is joining the new organisation.
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Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17554, 8 November 1928, Page 7
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