NOT WANTED

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 488, 18 October 1928, Page 1

NOT WANTED

Union Seeks Winston’s Expulsion JOKE NOT SEEN (United Service) Reed. 11 a.m. LONDON, Wednesday. The Alanchester Branch of the Building Trades Union passed a resolution protesting against Mr. Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, joining the union, and demanding that the membership fee be returned to him, which is equivalent to expulsion. It also demands the resignation of Mr. Hickson, the union’s general secretary, “for bringing the organisation into public contempt and ridicule.”

Mr. Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, is to become a trades unionist (said a recent message). In the summer vacation he helped to build a house on his estate at Westerham by laying the bricks. As a bricklayer he has since been the subject of many political cartoons. Now Mr. Lane, Mayor of Battei'sea, has invited Mr. Churchill to join the Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers, and Mr. Churchill who, incidentally, took a leading part in suppressing the general strike of two years ago, has appreciated the humour of the idea and consented to become a member of the union. In asking Mr. Churchill to join the Building Trades Union (says an Australian and New Zealand Press Asso-ciation-United Service message), Mr. Lane, who is the local secretary, said all good workmen became members of the organisations with a view to keeping up the traditions of honourable occupations, such as bricklaying. He recalled the fact that Air. McKinley, a former President of the United States, became a trades unionist before he could lay a foundation-stone. Air. Churchill will pay an entrance fee of 5s and his contribution will be 9d a week. He will receive 20s a week if he were called out on strike and benefits if he were unemployed.