No Confidence In Printers ’ Leaders
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 14. The Wellington branch of the New Zealand Printing and Related Trades Union tonight passed a motion of no-confidence in its national president and national secretary. The branch’s annual meeting called on the men to resign.
The move was made on the motion of Mr P. Murphy. It will go forward as a remit to the union’s national council. Neither the national president, Mr E. Pearce, of Nelson, nor the national secretary, Mr R. G. Freeman, of Wellington, was at the meeting. Mr Murphy criticised the national executive’s role in the recent printers’ margin-for-skill claim. He said the president of the Federation of Labour (Mr T.
E. Skinner), who presented the claim, had arrived in Wellington to find that the executive had no case but was restting on the award. Most of the case had been prepared under great pressure by the Wellington executive. One member asked to have his vote against the motion recorded.
There were about 200 at the meeting.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31112, 15 July 1966, Page 14
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