PAPERSPAST

FREEZING WORKERS AND A.P.U

I Editor,' C.Vv.P.— In your issue of June 4, there appears a reply Irom the General Secretary of ihe Pree/.-ng Votters Ito tho A.P.U., in respect of tho pro- I posed linking up ot the two organisations iv qnsstiou, as a result oi a /resolution that, v.-as moved by «jnys-ell at tbe recent A.P.U. conference, wher-ein ;it is stated that rue Presiuent <U rue W'aingawa. Union had no authority to .enter je:o any negu't-at.oris Kir arnaiganrat'On with out.siue unions, without first consuit-ug his cxtcuiive. Por the edification 01 Air. Nrart and all who might be. concerned, permit mc to point out that tho remit that, k-d ! t-o tho resolution was nioved by 11. : Urader, who happens to be the President 'of the , Waingawa Union, at a meeting !of ihe A.P.U., of whh.h Mr. Brader lis also a member, held on -March 20 of the present year, and earned unanim! ously by a meeting of some 30 or more, j who, like Mr. Brader, are members of i both the A.P.U. and the Freezers Work| ers' Union. Therefor© it will be seen j tf&at the mover v.-as acting not in any ! official capacity of the Free 2 er, 3 Workj era' Union but as a member '' of the j A.P.U., and was quite within his rights, I However, the tactics usually employed !by officialdom on this occasion proved 'uo exception to the rale, when a genuine ! attempt is made to effect closer unity, j and it' clearly indicates that the time j has arrived when the question of omal gamation of the workers of this country j must be carried direct to the rank and J file, when tho verdict must bo that srei tional unionism must be consigned to j a past age, even thongh it might mean the return of som** nf onr secretaries 'to tho slaughtering board or the shear! ing door-. And of all things the workers' 'must insist, i.s Hurl: tho industrial para- Mt© rvlrail ho (OmpdU'd to .slop down I from his shoulders; it' is about timo j there was a clean up in the Labor j movement, for it contains many who i would not remain a fraction of a second j were it not for I ho salary their office I ' ' ALEX. MCLEOD, Master'ton. I . (So soon ns one member of the A.P.U. 1 can prove, that I have stood in the way cf greater unity, or when I stand for 1 any public office, I. will renim to the j shearing- floor without wauint*- I'or ..- I of the rank and ill-?.) 0, GRAYNDLER, ! 7,'6'lg, Gen. Sec, K-Z.A.p.U.

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