WORKERS’ UNIONS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 112, 8 October 1901, Page 3

WORKERS’ UNIONS.

T 9 THE EDITOR. gtx,—ln your issue of the sth inst, a eorrespoadenfc asks me several questions, two of which I will answer. First he asks **]£ Mr Boreham’s Society’was registered ae stated by him on August 17th, how is it (fast be now' tells us that, to be registbred: ch October loth?” Second, he aeke, ‘‘where was the

registered office of the union on August 17th?” In reply: fir t, on Augu* 17th the union was registered as the Waimate Branch of the New Zealand Workers’ .Union." On October 10th It will be •gisterad as the Waimate Workers* Union,' being an industrial union of agricultural and pastoral worker*, thn# having its powers extended to deal with all industrial disputes - throughout Iho industrial district of Canterbury. Second, the registered office of the union on,. August 17th was the Waimate Fire Brigade Station, Shearman ttreet, Waimate. Should your correspondent

wish to verify the above, I' would refer him to the Labour Journal of September list, also to every New Zealand Gazette published since August 25th. When your correspondent a»ks. mo to. tell him the number, of members in the Union, amount of subscriptions paid and funds in, bapd, I can only refer hjmto r< U« 6, 7 and 8 of our book of rules dealing with such questions. In conclusion, should your correspondent, ** Querist,” at any future time require any information from me, as secretary of the Waimate Workers* Union, be will have to make his enquiries ibove his own name, as I-declino to have my dealings with then who hide bshind iopj ii. They may bo pro • Bor shams.— [ a n, etc.,

S. Bobkham.