Union Levies
Sir, —-May I protest against unions having the power to compel members to pay a 20/- levy for a newspaper, irrespective of earnings received on the wharf during the past 12 mouths? Every commercial man knows that the import restrictions have affected him, and the same applies to the men on the wharves. I paid up 20/-, under protest, as did dozens more, to save my wife and family from being in want (well knowing what was the penalty) and 1 was a voluntary payer of 20/- two years past for the Labour ollicial organ (hundreds in the union did not pay, not compulsory then). Mr. Semple denied in Parliament that it was compulsory to pay the levy, but I think that, was before the Government got back into power for the second time. —I am, etc., PAID UP. Petone. May J.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 190, 8 May 1940, Page 11
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144Union Levies Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 190, 8 May 1940, Page 11
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