WHERE STANDS HE?

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1937, 20 December 1913, Page 6

WHERE STANDS HE?

POSITION 01 MR W 1 \ol \G ' • Main < f poking' to know '.whereMi'S-W"-■'T.~ '.Young stands.' It is "only' five'weeks ago since the seamen, who wo not allied to tho Fodoratkm oi Labour/ roailx wote up to what k incaat

to have tiio secretary ofthe Wellington ■'branch of tho iniion acting also'as'presiv dent-of tho United Federation' of Lab;. ourfrit 'is believed that, they have never; ; -jjuilo got over the fact that tbeir-.xrust-ed servant was tho highest official in an 'organisation . which they had tinned down'at the ballot-box. . Though 'ihe sore 'was there';. I tho seamen never ie!t it until | vthcOstrike happened, and .Mr. Belcher,. ; | ; thc'j)uiu.'din secretary:.of tho Seaihcnjs. j Union, presented to'them tho anomalous : positions, lield ~ljy ■,his 1 Wellington con-. frereV^iyS:'■;, ; . '.. •■* 1 ■-''■'"' In" tlio stress of. the strike, another ■ quaintly-anomalous condition-of affairs, in,connection with Air. W. 'X. Young seems to have been forgotten! Whilst ■ : posing as ono of. tho most enthusiastic adherents, of tho strike and of tho Federation of Labour, and a very.aggressive • ••anti-Arbitrationist, Sir. W.* I'.'Young > holds tlio' jjositioii of acting-nominated member, representing tho workers, on tho Arbitration Court, ■ -and assuming that Mr. J. A. APCullongh were, for any reason, not to bo able to carry out his duties as . tho workers' -representative, Mr. Young would be called on to perform them. ; ■ ■ • > " '