ALLIANCE OF LABOUR

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 255, 24 July 1937, Page 8

ALLIANCE OF LABOUR

Wellington District Council DECISION TO DISSOLVE Because of the formation of the Federation of Labour, which will take over the duties of the National Council of the New Zealand Alliance of Labour and the Trades and Labour Council, the Wellington District Council of the Alliance was dissolved by resolution of delegates at a meeting in Wellington this week. The funds of the district council will be handed to the National Council, which, when it has liquidated its liabilities, will pass the surplus to the federation.

As office property. New Zealand Worker Company shares, and a sum of more than £3OO were held by the New Zealand Alliance of Labour, a resolution was passed expressing the opinion that all property, shares and money held in the name of the New Zealand Alliance of Labour should be banded to the federation. Mr. A. W. Cro.skery, national, secretary, was thanked for his work in helping to bring about the understanding that had been arrived at by the Alliance of Labour and the Trades Councils when the* Federation of Labour was formed.

Appreciation of the work done by the district council officials during the last three years was expressed by delegates from the shipwrights, bakers, butchers. hotel workers. printing trades, clerical workers and labourers' unions. Mention was made of the organisation and registration of the Clerical Workers’ Union, and the obtaining of the first general award for office workers.

The president of the district council expressed the hope that every union would affiliate with the Federation of Labour now that it had become an established institution and that branches, in the form of trade councils, were being formed throughout the country. The Wellington Trades Council, he said, covered more than 24,000 workers, Auckland more than 30,000, and Canterbury more than 30.000. Trades councils had been formed at Invercargill, Nelson. Greymouth and Westport. It was anticipated that soon trades councils would be formed in every centre where 1000 workers were organised in unions.