Unions to respond?
PA Wellington Some sort of boycott action against rugby players who travelled at the week-end to South Africa is likely to be called for by the Wellington Trade Council. The council’s president, Mr Pat Kelly, said he was disgusted that they were going to South Africa in the light of the recent arrest of the Rev. Arnold Stofile. Mr Stofile, a member of the executive of the antiapartheid organisation, the United Democratic
Front, was a witness in the injunction hearings against last year’s All Black tour. “I hope that if they take off they appreciate that while they’re binning around on the rugby paddock that man and, thousands of others are in jail,” said Mr Kelly. Mr Stofile was in r jail for his strident opposition to apartheid. r Mr Kelly would ? not specify action that might be taken against the players when they returned.
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