COST OF LIVING Unions Directed To Call Meetings
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, November 19. The Federation of Labour has directed all trades councils and unions to call lunchhour protest meetings calling on the Government to take positive steps to hold the cost of living.
The secretary of the F.O.L. (Mr K. M. Baxter) told Wellington watersiders that' a meeting of the national executive decided on Monday that the price control and stabilisation policy “should be set in motion.”
The national council, he said, now called on the Government to impose price control on all consumer goods and services and to take steps necessary to stabilise the general economy of the country. If the Government did not take action along these lines within four weeks, the 200 affiliated unions and 20 trades councils “would be called upon to rally support to impress upon the Government the grave concern at the unwarranted increase in prices after the 6 per cent wage increase.”
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30603, 20 November 1964, Page 3
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