ADVISORY PANEL
UNIONS AND! DEFENCE
AUSTRALIAN MOVES
(Received July 31, 1.30 p.m.)
MELBOURNE, This Day
The interstate executive of the Australasian Council of Trades . Unions decided to seek an amicable agreement with, the Premier, Mr. R. G. Menzies, on the question of a trades union defence advisory panel. Mr. Menzies will be asked to give effect to the plan to which he agreed before it was submitted to the Trades and Labour Council of each State. He will be informed that the majority of the Labour councils have adopted the plan formulated by the A.C.T.U. and the recent conference of Federal union's, and that as a result, the plan has now become the policy of the trade union movement.
The seven individual unions which agreed to co-operate with the Federal Government in one major panel will be urged to refrain from having any negotiations with the Federal Government pending advice from the A.C.T.U.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 27, 31 July 1940, Page 8
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