Compulsory Levies.
At a sitting of the Australian Elec- •■ toral Commission last week., Mr . -dale Parkhill declared that members"of certain organisations were being •blackmailed" into paying levies for a labour newspaper. Recently Mr Chris. : -Watson addressed a meeting of the AWa/gamated Society of Carpenters, bo vieu-to inducing them to - -pay »• levy of 5s per member. By 74 votes to 68",. a motion was carried to impose the levy. This affected some 2000 ..men who were being blackmailed into ; paymg a levy for a newspaper to advo- ££ Principles t which they wero totally opposed. Many of these carI»rty. 3lr Laird &nnth: •■But you would . aot use the, word 'blackmail.' You ; '&» -«r a lf onis «'■ ex-Prime-Min- " if vi « 11 use any word Jon like," , lephedMr Parkhill, "but it still re- . mams, the men aro being blackmailed." got your evidonco from hearsay," - "Sμ,? ?,? lth V ." Oh - uo «" "plied Mr ..ParkhjH, "I got it from a member of --Jho Carpenters , Society." "Give us his ' F F aThhilh " U I did so, he . . .Would bo hounded out of the society .and never get a. chance of any more JPork. "
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14972, 20 May 1914, Page 9
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184Compulsory Levies. Press, Volume L, Issue 14972, 20 May 1914, Page 9
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