Joe Mack (unionist)

Joe Mack.

Matthew Joseph Mack (3 March 1867 – 18 July 1951), generally known as Joe Mack, was a New Zealand railway worker and trade unionist.

Mack was born in Wellington, New Zealand on 3 March 1867.[1] He was a railway guard and Secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (1908-27).[2] Mack stood as New Zealand Labour Party candidate for Parnell in 1911 but disliked the party's stance on conscription in WWI. In 1918 he contested the Wellington Central by-election as an Independent Labour-Protestant Political Association candidate and came a very creditable runner-up to Labour's Peter Fraser.[3] Mack was President of the Alliance of Labour in 1924.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Atkinson, Neill. "Matthew Joseph Mack". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved December 2011.
  2. 1 2 Gustafson, Barry (1980). Labour's path to political independence: The Origins and Establishment of the New Zealand Labour Party, 1900–19. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press. pp. 160f. ISBN 0-19-647986-X.
  3. ↑ "A victory for Labour". The Evening Post XCVI (83). 4 October 1918. p. 3. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
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