PREFERENCE TO UNIONISTS.
MINISTER OF LABOUR SPEAKS STRONGLY. WILL'NOT.,BE" DICTATED TO. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, February 6. A union deputation, to-night, protested to the Minister of Labour against the appointment of four scaffolding inspectors 5 .0n the ground -that they were not qualified and three of them were non-unionists. The Minister defended the inspecqualifications, and said ithe 'Government was trustee for the people as a whole, and no Government could ever be committed to a ■policy that unionists alone should receive, employment from it. All -things being equal, a unionist would get preference if the Minister knew him to be a unionist, but no applicant would be asked whether he was '.■ a unionist or' not. He would not be ■dictated to by any outside organisation. If the men showed themselves 'unfit he alone would dismiss them.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8351, 7 February 1907, Page 5
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136PREFERENCE TO UNIONISTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8351, 7 February 1907, Page 5
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