EXPULSION OF WATERSIDERS
OPPOSITION TO MOVE
WEST COAST TRADES COUNCIL’S VIEWS
From Our Own Reporter GREYMOUTH, February 4. The West Coast Trades Council decided at a meeting this week to oppose the action of the New Zealand Federation of Labour in expelling the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Union from membership of the federation. The council has representatives from the biggest unions on the West Coast, including the Dredgeworkers’ Union, the Miners’ Union, Hotel Workers’ Union, the Railwaymen’s Union, and the Watersider .Workers’ Union. The view was expressed that the federation had no power to expel an affiliated body unless directed to do so by the annual conference. The council decided that as it considered expulsion was wrong it would permit the watersiders’ delegate, Mr W. Meates, to attend council meetings until sucn time as the question was finally dealt with.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26030, 6 February 1950, Page 3
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