Trade with Chile
Sir — The recent Federation of Labour Conference
chaired by its president, Mr Jim Knox, must have given the average New Zealander food for thought as to whose side this man is on with regard to the ban on trade with Chile. Politics once again comes into the story for it must be remembered that the Chilean Marxist leader Allendi was removed from office which up to that time had been Moscows first real set-back since the take-over of Czechoslovakia. In reply to this snub, the Communist- dominated world trade union movement, which includes New Zealand, placed a ban on all trade with Chile which Messrs Knox and company have strictly adhered to at the cost of millions of dollars to this country and the loss of employment ensuing from this ban. This is just the thin edge of the Communist wedge which will be driven home in the future by a ban on trade with South Africa. — Yours, etc., L. WESTNEY. May 10, 1981.
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