FEDERATION OF LABOUR.
(PHESS . ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, July 7. The annual conference of the United Federation of Labour was concluded to-day. It was decided that the Federation should cease to exist as a national body, and that it should bo a recommendation to District Councils to continue as Trades and Labour Councils. It was further resolved that an endeavour be made to get unions affiliated t-o organise industrially and nationally, so that they might become affiliated with the Alliance of Labour. The question of coloured labour was discussed, and the conference expressed the opinion that a check should be put on the influx of Asiatics, as it was convinced that those people were being induced to come here by capitalistic combines for the purpose of increasing the lattor's dividends and reducing the standard of living ,of New Zealand workers. It was decided to confer cn this question with the New Zealand Labour Party.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16881, 8 July 1920, Page 8
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