NEW TRADES HALL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 36, 13 February 1928, Page 9

NEW TRADES HALL.

LABOUR HEADQUARTERS.

ADDRESS BT MR. HOLLAND.

REFERENCE TO THE ELECTIONS,

(By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, this day.

The foundation stone of the new Wellington Trades Hall was laid by Mr. H. E. Holland, M.P., Leader of the Opposition, on Saturday.

The building is being erected in Vivian Street, and it will be a three-storey steel-framed structure, to house not only the various union offices, but also the "New Zealand Worker," the organ of the Labour party. >

Mr. Holland said he believed the building would not only be "k home and a temple of Labour for local organisations, but in time it would become the headquarters of the Dominion Labour movement. Dominion congresses would be held in the hall, which will seat 500, and decisions would be made that would affect the political and industrial life of New Zealand. They could make the hall a success, he told the audience, and by political and industrial solidarity they could go farther and win the country for Labour next November.

Mr. Roberts, chairman of directors of "The Worker," made an appeal for financial support for that journal. He said the new building would be a credit to the Labour movement. It "was being erected on the co-operative principle, and it would demonstrate the efficiency of Labour, both as to cost and workmanship.