LABOUR UNITY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1937, Page 10

LABOUR UNITY

NEW CONFERENCE

TO BE CALLED BY THE HON

P. FRASER

DIFFERENCES ENDED

iAt the request of the Alliance of I Labour and the Trades and Labour Council Federation, the Minister of Health and Education Uhe Hon. P. Fraser) has agreed to call a conference of trade unions and other organisations of employees for the purpose of forming a national industrial organisation. The conference has been called for April' 14, and will ba held in the Trades Hall, Wellington.

. The Minister will open the conference, for which invitations will soon be issued. It is hoped by the sponsors of the movement that the conference will be representative of all unions, including those not affiliated to cither j the .Trades and Labour Council Feder- ! ation, or the New Zealand' Alliance of Labour, and the various organisations of State employees, such as railwaymen's associations, Public Service Association, Post and Telegraph Employees' Association, and the New Zealand Educational Institute.

The deputation which" 'waited on Mr. Fraser comprised Messrs. F. Cornwell, F. P. Walsh, and A. Cook. The decision to approach the Minister was the outcome of a conference which was called with the object of overcoming the faction difficulty in the Labour movement.

It was agreed that the constitution drafted by the Trades and Labour Council and the Alliance of Labour should be the basis for discussion at the national conference to be arranged for the bringing about of one national organisation.

With the object of preventing larger organisations from dominating the conference it was unanimously agreed that the basis of representation should be not more than five representatives from any union, and that no representative should have more than one vote.

The conference, which will be called by the Minister, will replace the separate conferences which were to have been called by the New Zealand Alliance of Labour and the Trades and Labour Council on the one hand and "a unity committee" representing the New Zealand Workers' Union, the Waterside Workers' Federation and the New Zealand Union of Railwaymen on the other hand.