UNIONISM AND PATRIOTISM.
WORKERS MUST TOLERATE THEIR ENEMIES. AND WORK ALONGSIDE THEM. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Received 4, 9.50 p.m. Sydney, January 4. Mr O'Sulivan, general secretary of the Railway Workers' General Labourers' Association, in his report for the sixth annual conference, severely criticises the action of certain organisations in refusing to work with enemy subjects. The executive discountenanced the action in the strongest possible terms, its being a violation of the spirit of unionism, and said it might appropriately be termed organised inhumanity enacted under the guise of pseudo-patriotism. There wag no room in the ranks of unionism for the display of racial spleen. A man's worth as a citizen and a Unionist was not determined by his nationality tiny more than by his religion or the color* of hi - hair, Tito president, in opening the conference, stated that so;r.v or later all the unions would extend tlie.v fin)''.' ■ . , in the direction of i!: : .i. industry.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 177, 5 January 1915, Page 3
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157UNIONISM AND PATRIOTISM. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 177, 5 January 1915, Page 3
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