LABOUR CONFERENCE

Evening Star, Issue 22572, 13 February 1937, Page 16

LABOUR CONFERENCE

DOMINION REPRESENTATION ALLIANCE ATTITUDE TO MR YOUNG . [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, February 13. Mr A. Cock, president of the ojdl Alliance of Labour and secretary of the New Zealand Workers’ Union, made the following statement in regard to the report that Mr F. G. Young, secretary of the Hotel Workers’ Federation, had been selected by the Alliance of Labour as a nominee for appointment as workers’ representative at the International Labour Conference at Geneva:— , “Mr Young lias not been selected by the Alliance of Labour, although ho may bo selected by a coterie of that organisation. The workers of New Zealandl must realise that a split occurred in the Alliance of Labour at the Easter Conference in 1936, and probably Mr Young, who was one of the delegates who attempted to alter the constitution, has now been selected by those who wero responsible for this alteration. The principal Labour organisations in the Alliance of Labour have not bad any say in the .selection of Mr Young, and, therefore, cannot support Mm.,”