LABOUR FEDERATION.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 38, 24 November 1938, Page 3

LABOUR FEDERATION.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLANS. THE PRESIDENT MAY BROADCAST (Per Press Association./ WELLINGTON, November 23. The quarterly meeting of the National Council of the New Zealand Federation of Labour was continued in Wellington to-day. It will resume tomorrow morning and will probably continue till Friday night. The national secretary (Mr I. D. Cornwell), in a statement to-night, said a deputation from the meeting had discussed policy questions and industrial affairs generally with a number of Ministers.

Asked whether any representations would be made on the subject of the Court of Arbitration, Mr Cornwell said there would not. The Court was due in Wellington on December 9, and was expected to clear up the greater part of its work here beiore Christmas. Any further consideration of the position would be deferred till tho Now Year. In his address to the conference on the opening day, the Prime Minister (the Rt, Hon. M. J. Savage) said it was probable that ho would invite representatives of the industrial Labour movement to speak to workers over the national radio network on the Government’s plans for new economic development. Mr Cornwell said to-night that actually this question had boon under consideration by the Federation for some time, and it had already prepared a. statement of its attitude, and sent it to the broadcasting authorities. If the national president of the Federation, Mr A. McLagan, were in Wellington at the time he would make the broadcast on behalf of the Federation.