UNION CONTRIBUTIONS
“BIG TAX ON COUNTRY” TRAMWAY MEMBER OBJECTS A BREEZY INTERLUDE ( Spccia L to TIIE SUN.J CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. “This union contribution is a tremendous tax on the country, which cannot be justified,” said Mr. J. A. Flesher, a member of the Christchurch Tramways Board, this morning, at a meeting of the Conciliation Council, which was discussing the clause in the award for tramway employees which requires them to pay sixpence a week to the union fund. “It is taking thousands of pounds from all over the country to provide a fighting fund for political purposes. One of these days I am going to take the trouble to find out exactly the amount of money concerned, but it is amounting to an expenditure of thousands of pounds, which cannot be justified. It is a tax on the public to fight themselves,” concluded Mr. Flesher. The men’s representatives objected vigorously to his statements. “You forget that most of the public are workers,” said one. “What you’re waiting to do is to put that sixpence in your own pockets, Mr. Flesher,” said another. Mr. Hagger, the Conciliation Commissioner, quickly closed down on the discussion, ■*
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 256, 19 January 1928, Page 12
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192UNION CONTRIBUTIONS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 256, 19 January 1928, Page 12
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