WORKERS’ UNIONS’ BIG PROPOSALS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 111, 5 October 1901, Page 3

WORKERS’ UNIONS’ BIG PROPOSALS.

iO THE EDITOR; Sir, —On the 17th of August Mr Borcham attended a meeting of the South Canterbury Shearers’ Union in Waimate to urge those about to enrol themselves as members of such union to consider that there was a duly registered union of agricultural and pastoral workers in Waimate. In the Advertiser of Thursday the same person* as-secre-tary of the Workers’ Union* says that *' as bis union is capable and willing to work the whole of Canterbury district, and as the Act of 1900 was passed to prevent the useless multiplication of unions, their union would, as soon as registration was accomplished on October 10th, fix up agencies throughout the district to enrol members, and he thought that WorkSrc should not hesitate to do sa in a union at ptswai Ift liiitviUfl,

more especially when, their objects may be attained and their grievances adjusted more promptly and effectively by one union governing the whole district than by several unions, each clamouring for its own existing or supposed grievances to be rectified,” The colony .£3 fairly sick of union agitators, and should welcome Mr Boreham’s idea to' improve matters. In the past there has been too o.uch clamouring. If Mr Borehnm’s society was duly registered as claimed on August 17th, how is it that we are told it is to be registered on October 10th 7 And as the Waimate Workers’Union is said to be capable of working the whole of Canterbury, will its secretary kindly state where was the reg : stered office of the union on August 17th, with number of members, amount of subscriptions paid, and funds in hand ? And what increase has there been since then ? The union’s proposal is a big one, and for success to attend it the utmost confidence by others is necessary.— : —I am, etc., Querist.