DRAPERS' ASSISTANTS' UNION.
A NEW ORGANISATION. l«y Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Wednesday. Another meeting of drapers' assistants, called by Mr. J. I'urtell, a member of the executive of the recent strike, took place tonight for the purpose of forming a new union and registering' it. There was a large and very critical gathering which while Mr. Purtell dealt ! generally with unionism, and complained | of the action taken by Mr. Rosscr, who i called a meeting of drapers' assistants last nijjht and formed a new union with about fifteen members. Mr. Purtell complained that he had been working up this new union for two months, and he suggested that Mr. Rosser had got in ahead of him in an unfair manner. The meeting showed a disposition to ch.valc Mr. Purtell, and eventually carried a resolution that no action be taken. To-day the old union sent to the Registrar in Wellington an emphatic protest against the registration of the new union formed by Mr. Rosser last night.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 205, 27 February 1914, Page 2
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164DRAPERS' ASSISTANTS' UNION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 205, 27 February 1914, Page 2
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