DEMONSTRATION TO PARLIAMENT

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24633, 1 August 1945, Page 6

DEMONSTRATION TO PARLIAMENT

PLANS OF LABOUR MOVEMENT

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 31. ‘ Though feeling in trades union and allied movements is that the deputation to the Government ‘of all opposed to national socialism’ is entirely unnecessary, the workers’ attitude is that if the Dominion Council, of Co-ordin-ated Business Associations persists in staging a demonstration to Parliament, whereas they could quite as effectively state their case by a representative deputation, the workers must take part in such demonstration, for they have been and are consistently opposed- to anything that savours of national socialism and Fascism,” said Mr F. P. Walsh, president -of the Wellington Trades Council, when outlining the plans of trades unions and allied organisations for participation in the demonstration arranged by the Dominion Council of Co-ordinated Business Associations for Thursday morning. Mr Walsh said that at a meeting of representatives of various trades unions, Labour Party branches, and the Labour Representation Committee, the feeling was unanimously expressed that the demonstration insisted upon by certain business interests against ‘‘national socialisation” and the taking over of the privately held shares in the Bank of New Zealand was a mistake, but that the workers, feeling as strongly as they did, must state their outright opposition to the first and their support to the second. At a special stop-work meeting this morning the Wellington Waterside Workers’ Union decided that there would be no work on the wharves on Thursday from 8 a.m. until 11 p.m.