WORLD TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION
MR WALSH NOT TO GO TO PARIS (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, Nov. 2. New Zealand trade union representation at the meeting at Paris this month of the executive board of the World Confederation of Free Trade Unions has still to be decided. The Federation of Labour announced last month that its president (Mr F. P. Walsh) would represent Australia and New Zealand at' the conference this year. The Dominion and the Commonwealth are represented in alternate years. However, Mr Walsh announced this morning that he would not be going to Paris. Mr Walsh said he was too busy this morning to discuss his reasons for not going, but pressure of work in New Zealand is understood to be his reason. No information on his decision, or on a possible successor, could be obtained from the federation office today. The matter had not been discussed, it was said. » A possible representative is the secretary of the Labourers’ Union (Mr P. M. Butler), an executive member of the federation, who is at present in Britain.
Among important matters to be discussed at Paris is the< setting-up of a free trade union board for South-east Asia.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27498, 4 November 1954, Page 10
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