UNION FOR CLERGY
LONDON VICAR'S SCHEME AFFINITY WITH WORKERS A trade union for ministers of all denominations and paid church workers is being planned. It will be constituted on trade union lines so that.it may become affiliated to the Trades Union Congress. The Rev. Robert Woble, vicar of St. Saviour's, Forest Hill* S.E. the sponsor of the plan, stated recently that he had been in touch with trade union authorities regarding the proper bar,is on which it should be built, so that its members could work with other unionists towards a common objective. '*Our idea," he said, "is to show that Ave have an identity of interests with the workers. The need for a protective organisation lor ministers is also very real, particularly in the case of curates and others whose rate of pay is so small as to compel them to come within the scope of health and unemployment insurance. "I have received considerable encouragement for the idea in Labour circles, and I have written to a thousand clergymen and ministers who I know to be sympathetic. The union Avill be definitely undenominational."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 239, 18 November 1940, Page 2
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184UNION FOR CLERGY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 239, 18 November 1940, Page 2
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