“ABSURD AND MISLEADING”
MR DOIDGE'S FIGURES REJECTED TPer United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, October 3. “ Absurd and misleading ” was hov' men in Labour circles this morning described the figures quoted by Mr Doidge, the defeated National candidate at Manukau, to show that “ by the time the General Election conies the Socialists will have a fighting fund of more than £1,000,000." “ We are in a quandary to know how Mr Doidge arrived at the estimate that 450,000 workers have been forced to become trade unionists,” they said. On the last available returns the membership of the unions was only 101,850, and Labour supporters resented the suggestion that union fees, or a largo proportion thereof, were being diverted to political channels. There was nothing compulsory about the unions affiliating with the Now Zealand Labour Party, and some of the biggest unions (including the cooks' and stewards and seamen's) wore not affiliated. If the majority of members of a union wished to do so they had a right to affiliate oven with tiie National Partv.
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Evening Star, Issue 22460, 3 October 1936, Page 21
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171“ABSURD AND MISLEADING” Evening Star, Issue 22460, 3 October 1936, Page 21
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