TRADE UNIONISM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 27, 22 June 1914, Page 2

TRADE UNIONISM.

AN EXAMPLE OF UNITY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, June 20. An announcement of considerable interest to trade unionists is made in the current number of the Amalgamated So ciety of Carpenters and Joiners' Journal. During the past few months the ■building trade at Home, particularly in London, has been greatly disturbed owing to employers insisting that men, before being employed, shall .•sign an agreement under' which they pledge themselves to be subject to a fine for each breach -of the agreement and not to quit their employment because any of their fellow employees is or is not a member of any trade society. In London the men (steadfastly .refused to sign any such agreement and a long ami bitter struggle ensued, winch it has been threatened will culminate in a genoral lock-out by the Master Builders' Associations throughout the United ■Kingdom. The current number of the Carpenters' Journal announces that on May I'D last o cablegram was received by the New Zealand executive board from Chandler, general socretary of the society of ~ Eugland, as follows: "Threatened lock-out. Funds urgently needed. Please make orders on ail branches) able to remit. (Signed) Chandler."

The New Zealand executive board hold a special meeting the same evening and unanimously decided to remit £3OOO forthwith, making levies on various branches na follows: Auckland Central £235, Mt .Eden £2OO, Ponsonby £350, Newmarket £4O, Devonport £25, Ondhunga £3O, Christchureh £l9O, Sydenham £SO, Gisborne £IOO, flrevmouth £75, Hamilton £4O, Hastings £125, Napier £l5O, Invercargill £SO, Masterton £3O, Nelson £OO, Palmerston* North £(10, Biotomia £4O, Tiimwu £IOO, New Plymouth £35, Stratford £2O, Hawera £4O, Wanganui £125, Wcstport £SO. Brooklyn £IOO, Wellington Central £350, Wellington South £175, Petone £75, Lower Hutt £SO. The whole of the amounts as levied were sent within a few days, one bftinoh (Greyinoutlu) in proportion to its membership sending as much as £l2 10s per member.