T.U.C. DEMAND
GOVERNMENT CONSULTATION AS A* RIGHT LONDON, July 27. The general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, Sir Walter Citrin^ speaking at the annual conference of trades councils, staid that the trades union movement demanded Government consultation as a right. "We had some difficulties in the early stages of the war in securing realisation of whafc we meant by • consultation," he said,, "but were successful in getting a Conservative Prime Minister to instruct every Department that it was nctcessary that trades unions be consulted if ( members were even remotely affecited." Sir Walter denied any suggestion that the trades unicms were trespassing on the preserves of the Labour Party. "I do not want to create any barrier, but we will not allow political action to be substituted for direct trade union action," ht^ said. "We shall ! insist on our rights -where the interests |of members are cova^erned, and the Government is wise to recognise this."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 25, 29 July 1940, Page 7
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