A DOMINION UNION.
GOVERNMENT AVERSE TO IT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Wellington, Oct. 7. "Is it intended to introduce legislation during the present session enabling the seamen of New Zealand to have their union registered as one union for the whole of New Zealand!" asked Mr. P. Priser (Wellington Central) in the Houso of Representatives. The member added that he understood the Labor Department was not averse to this arrangement. The Minister for Labor (Sir William Hemes) saH that the Government had no objection to Dominion awards and it might bring down legislation on that pdint if time permitted. But a Dominion award was a different thing from a Dominion union. In view of the present state of labor unrest, the opinion of the Government was that it was not desirable to have Dominion unions, which could bo united and worked as one big union. He did not want to open that question. Tho avowed object of the Seamen's Union, as expressed by Mr. Young, was to have a "Dominion union in order to amalgamate with the Australian union. That would be creating a combination that would be very powerful, and that might paralyse ii>
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1920, Page 5
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195A DOMINION UNION. Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1920, Page 5
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