COLLEGE BOARD Withdrawal Threat By Trades Council

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30043, 30 January 1963, Page 10

COLLEGE BOARD Withdrawal Threat By Trades Council

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, January 29.

If Mr A. V. Newberry is allowed to stay on the Wellington Technical College board of managers, the Wellington Trades Council may withdraw all its representatives from the college.

The trades council president, Mr F. P. Walsh, said tonight that the college board’s recent decision might leave the council with no choice.

The council has three representatives on the board.

On Monday the board decided to retain Mr Newberry on the board tin the end oi his three-year term nasi August, in spite of the fad that the trades counci] had advised that it no longsi recognised Mr Newberry M its reproMonwTc. He bat elashed with tin federation of Labour over its policy on the Maori education Foundation policy. Mr Walsh said the F.OX. of which he is also president, and of which the tradw council is part, had called or every one of its affiliates tc support the foundation. It followed that anyom who represented the F.O.L on any body must put for ward and support the F.O.L stand. If be did not. ther recognition must be with drawn and. correctly, the person concerned should resigr his position. The same right existed foi employers’ representatives. “Mr Newberry is entitlec to his private views, 01 course, but be should not pu then forward when he is representing us." said Mr Walsh The matter began tn th< middle of last year, but ba simmered in committee. A Monday’s board meeting. Mi

• W. J. Arcus said the matter r should be brought into the t open in the public interest 1 Mr J. G. Marshall said the 1 trades council should be igI norad. No-one should pret vent free speech on the I board. Mr Newberry, like all the other members, repre- • sented an occupation and was i there tor his electrical know- . ledge. , Mr Newberry, though no ■ laager a member of the North I Island Electrical Workers* 1 Union, which recently de- > elded to disaffiliate from the F.0.L., was formerly a presi- , dent of the union's WeP<ng- _ ton branch.