LABOUR COMBINE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 126, 28 May 1914, Page 5

LABOUR COMBINE.

I NOT A "RED-' FEDERATION. i i i A FACTOR FOR PEACE. ) j FAVOURED BY EI__P__rOYERS. ■ 'B; Cable -Pre-; A_.o_ia_.o_.—Coi\._i_.-_.) j 5..',0 z.m.) I | SYDNEY, this day. j .arious views are expressed hv union-: I WtS regarding the new Federation. In one direction it is .-laimed that it. is ] merely a political mm v. _-s ... prelude i,, an early dissolution ~. yhe Federal Farliainrnt. Another view is that if tbe whole thing can be accepted at \ face value ,it is really a. fine arcomplisiVicut. bnngi ing into line the whole union movement in K«r South Wales, and should make for permanent industrial pence. Dissentient unionists declare the fact tint the Federation deriding r,„i t,. send ii delegate to the New Zealaud ( onl'er-cn.-e i.- clear proof ihal th-.- leaders ( ,i th" iM'dcintion have n.. wish ti> liecome mixed up with the Dominion "Red" Federation. If the Federation were in earnest it would not be ashamed to meet the New Zealand unions. One added that "they are not earnest, and I know that the Dominion men will soon find it out." The. employers are loth to express an opinion until something more definite is known nf the Federation's intentions. The general .-.pinion seemed to be tba.t the idea of one big union would he favoured by employers, since it would preclude the. constant source nf annoyance ■| in haling to negotiate with many different bodies. One employer summarised the fitua- ' tion. "I holieie we will have one big tight so as to permanently .ettlc all these things.''