Unionism.
(To the Editor of the Times.) Sir—The remarks of your correspondent “ Downtrodden Carpenter” in your Thursday’s issue can be endorsed by the majority of carpenters in this district, and your correspondent deserves the thanks and support o:E all his fellow-workmen. But what about the others who are to a great extent in the same position as the carpenters ? There are competent tradesmen'working for six and seven shillings a day of eight hours : if they object, they are told to go elsewhere. I think the time has arrived for men to receive a fair pay, and to be treated like men.—l am, etc", Sympathy,
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 264, 16 November 1901, Page 1
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