TRANSPORT WORKERS' FEDERATION.

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 42, 17 August 1918, Page 11

TRANSPORT WORKERS' FEDERATION.

There mo now 22,000 workers affiliated to the Now Zealand Transport Workers' Federation, and, according to the iinnual report, there is every prospect that all the transport workers will join up before next year's conference. Tho official report of this year's conference, held in Wellington on 10th July, has only just been published in The Watorsider. It shows that the decisions arrived at were entirely satisfactory so far as a direction for future organisation work was concerned. The report asserts that the proposal to establish District Advisory Boa-rde, as suggested by the President, Mr. R. Hampton (A.S.R.S.), will bring the transport workers in the various centres into closer touch with each other, and should also assist in bringing the various improvements necessary _to each section before the board^ meeting in Wellington. "The essential thing to-day in the Labour movement is efficient industrial organisation. . To obtain that we muet establish organisation along the lines of industry, and allow industrial democratic control to tho fullest oxtent. The District Advisory Boa.rds should materially assist in obtainmg. these two essentials. . . . The transport workers should now move on. Tho road to efficient industrial organisation has now been laid down by a central organisation."