Delegation to Fiji
fN.Z.P. .4 -Reuter—Copyright) I CUERNAVACA (Mexico). April 27. The powerful International! Confederation of Free Trade | Unions today decided to send: a delegation to Fiji to per-; suade the Government there; to revise recently-passed trade disputes legislation. The delegation was proposed by Mr Robert Hawke, president of the Australian! Council of Trade Unions, at; a two-day meeting of the! I.C.F.T.U. finance and general: (purnoses committee. ; He criticised the Fiji legis-i [lation as severely restricting (the rights of trade unions ini .collective bargaining. The Secretarv-General of; the 1.C.F.T.U., Mr Otto Kers-: ten. of West Germany, sent: a cable to the Fijian Government protesting against the legislation two weeks ago. "It makes strikes illegal in many cases and goes against the International Labour Organisation Convention,” he said.
baseball. —.Japan defeated Australia 8-0 to post its second vic- 1 tory in the tenth Aslan baseball championship in Manila.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33212, 30 April 1973, Page 14
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