INTERVENTION OF ALLIANCE

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 2628, 25 January 1932, Page 4

INTERVENTION OF ALLIANCE

As a news telegram from. 'Wellington in to-day’s Star intimates the Alliance of Labour, which for years ha* been reeking to dominate the whole or organised labour in Now Zealand, lias taken up tile ease of the relief work strikers. The Alliance has been charged with, representing die Red movement in the Dominion, which the strong reason why many of the trades unions will not join ilio ‘ oiddrotictil. iwjhieh the. Alliance persist-* in organising. In tile telegram pnbi’shedr to-day the well paid secretary of the. Alliance—well paid out of the contribution.-; iff unionists who find! it hard enough t > keep up their union fees, these hard times talks in a, belligerent way to. the authovilio* who are hard enough put to it, to find the funds to keep rerelief wrk going without having the bludgeon of a Rnbour bo.- F; swung over their heads. The Alliance should keep out of this trouble —if it cannot help the world ess out of its own funds. Not until the Government lms the courage: to - top such untime- ],. ’interference from Labour officials will there hs industrial peace. Canada, deport* such trouble makers. The New Zealand Parliament can cut them off and curb their power either bv abolishing the Arbitration Court or refusing the power of tradcO unions to oinpolv professional secretaries—and, quickest course of all cutting out preference of employment to unioni ~t> and tlib limitation of apprentices in all industrial, awards.