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£12,900 FOR THE NEXTELECTION. ♦-P.O. WORKERS CIRCUMVENT NEW TRADE UNION LAW.From Our Own Correspondent.H'ESTOV-SrPER-MARE.Mondav.ftThe ropoit* to ho presented to the annual conference of the Tnirm of Post Otluo Worker*, which begin*iis sossion in t ho Knight stonePavilion, Weston « super - Mare, to-ilav. shows him- tho union haAcircumvented tho operation of tho now tratio union law a* affectum civil servants.Thr* have handed over the politi.nl r.nutof £12.853 to n trn«| to the six Pnrlinimii-tnry candidates for their use nni! mutinlassistance ns Parliamentary candidate* amimember* rf Parliament.11m* there will he ample fund* f«»r nil I the Union’* Parliamentary candidates at the next general election.AUDITORS’ REPORT.In their ro|ort on the account* of the union, the members’ auditor* say: ’* It vu|| he noticed that the political fund has been wound up. and we have inquired into tin* manner in which it wn* disposed of. The fund was divided faultily between tin- *ix candidate* for Parliament, who sub-c-quentlv voluntarily agreed that tlie ninnes* he pooled and povcrned by a trust deeiJ, the terms of which definitely secure that the money will be used for tlie pur|Kso for which it wa* originally auh«rrlhed.Tin* fund is now no longer tlu* propertyof the union, neither ha* it any control over it whatever, nor is it in any way a party to the trust.Thus the union’s six candidate* will have the money with whirh to contest constituencies at the next general election a* Labour candidate*.
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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool, Middlesex, GB
Mon, May 07, 1928
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