CARPENTERS’ SOCIETY.
* [To This Editor.]
Sir, —I read in your issue of this date a letter signed by the secretary of the Gisborne branch of tho Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners ex-, plaining tho object and benefits of their Society. I say all hail to the beneficient objects they aim at. No one would think of objecting to their mutual uplifting of one another, but when they band themselves together and purposely dictate who shall work and who shall not, then tlieir beneficence, loses its sweetness and the trend or that line of action becomes tyranny m its worst form. As to the fines going to swell the funds of the above Society, perhaps Mr "Wilson Duncan will explain why ho wrote to Mr. J. Colley for the £1 he was fined for a breach ot the preference clause, and what he did with the cheque when ho got it. The Master Bidders’ and Contractors Society have no fault to find with tho Carpenters. Society, in fact, would help them along rather than disparage them in any way, biit what- we aim at aS> freedom of contract on both sides.I—l 1 —I am, otc., tJ ? C JOHN SOMERVELL.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2503, 17 May 1909, Page 6
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199CARPENTERS’ SOCIETY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2503, 17 May 1909, Page 6
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