Trade union education
Sir, —Because we seem to see so little I am concerned that the real significance of the trade union movement in New Zealand is being downgraded. With at least three categories of unions —- craft, industrial and general — the history and part the movement plays in New Zealand’s economy needs explanation and understanding. For instance. a film on the history of the freezing, teaching, rural workers’, watersiders’, seamen’s, toolmaking unions, printing, butchering, mining, horticulture and railways industries, with emphasis on the present and the future, is a must. Schools and our workers of tomorrow are encouraged to the traditional white collar elitist professional trades that their peers
say gives one status. We are all workers. Let’s show them what we are made of. Once we were credited with producing the best gross national product. The magic is there but let’s pull together. —Yours, etc., GRAEME STANLEY. June 13, 1978.
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