A UNION’S FUNDS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1922, Page 4

A UNION’S FUNDS.

AN ALLEGED DEFICIENCY. QUESTION IN THE HOUSE. (By Wire —Parliamentary Reporter.> Wellington, Last Night. A question asked in the House of Representatives to-day by Mr, V. H. Potter (Roskill) gave point to some rumors that have been in circulation in Wellington Recently. The member asked the Minirter ol Labor: (1) Whether his attention has bees drawn to a recent occurrence in connection with the Wellington Waterside Workers’ Industrial Union of Workers, of which it is reported that at the annual meeting it was disclosed that the secretary was short in his accounts by over £1000; (2) whether, in the interests of the large number of individual contributors to these funds, the Labor Department or any other legal authority has power to institute au investigation into this matter with the object of recovering the money taken from the funds or enforcing a prosecution; (3) whether, if is no legal power on the part of the Registrar of Industrial Unions or other Government officer to institute the proceedings herein mentioned, he will take steps this session to submit legislation by which the hard-earned money of the individual members of workers’ unions shall be adequately protected agauwCK the dangers of serious defalcations.