Wellington Words

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 10, 12 May 1911, Page 6

Wellington Words

Mr Fred Heyling, the secretary of the Wellington Trades and Labour Council, has been laid up for some time. Mr W. C. Noot, secretary of the Wellington Wool and Grain Storemen, is acting in his absence. The Wellington Trades Council decided at its last meeting to recind the delegate pledge, which has been a source of much unnecessary ill-feeling on that body for some time. Mr. W. C. Noot has been doing some good work organising several of the dormant Wellington unions and instilling fresh life into them. The Electrical Workers at present have his assistance in their claim for a new agreement 1 . Many of these small unions could be bunched into on© decent organisation. It would save considerable book keeping. Tho Amalgamated Society of Merchants' Assistants, the latest Wellington iinion, now stands with 150 members. .Jack Meo is building it up—he is putting in some effort amongst the class which has proved itself the hardest to shape into a union. • With some assistance on the part of the present members this union should be the largest in Wellington. The fossils of the Wellington Trades Council are still palliating with that ancient structure of theirs. The' Carpeners . Union has spent some pounds turning a room inside out and making a dividing wall. Why not get a good sized building and have one decent sized office on the ground floor, with a counter, two clerks, and a typewriter ; then, let some of the surplus sees, get out on the highways and byeways with the economic gospel. Let us practice the unity we preach. A man said once, ''Give mc a, glance at your trades hall and I will tell you the vitality of your organisation." In Wellington the hall is as dismal as the doctrine preached therein. There is & need to take off the roof and let the light in in more ways than one—skylight and economic light.—Cbciel.