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MODERN SOLOMON.LAWYER, PARSON, DOCTOR.AND FRIEND. !Mr. Ben Turner, speaking at the annual delegate meeting of the National Union of Textile Workers, nt Bradford, to-day, described the qualifications of the ideal trade union official as follows:—He has to be lawyer and parson, accountant and banker, doctor and humanist, friend and adviser.It is now his job to be a Solomon in wisdom,Philosopher in political science. Walking encyclopedia,A man of character and probity, and, above all, a good cttixcn.“ALL MOONSHINE.”** It has been said it js solely the work of the employer to look after trade and commerce,” added Mr. Turner. ” This is moonshine, for there arc thousands of employees to hundreds of employers, and the employers’ mistake or weakness, or under-capacity affects the workers’ Jives daily and deeply, and the trade unions have to sec that tjicir members arc not sacrificed to weakness and worse, cither socially,industrially, or politically.Mr. Turner said he wanted them to make a special effort to get the Emergency Act passed in 1919, abolished, which allowed women and young persons to work on u two-shift system in our textile ami other industries. It was blasphemy to the Almighy to turn lad. and la.ses of sixteen out to itart work at aix in the morning, and worse till! to have them working on n second shift until ten at night.PASSED FOR EMERGENCY.When the Act was passed Labour opposed it as being needless. It was passed for an emergency, and only odd firms had used it in our industry, and in all of tliqm »•lt;-* managejiicnt and human prudence could have obviated the alleged need of it.
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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool, Middlesex, GB
Sat, May 05, 1928
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