THE REEFTON DEADLOCK
THE FEDERATION OPPOSED,
[ISY TELEGRAPH—SPECIAL TO THE STAR.]
WELLINGTON, This Day
‘•We agree that there is a lock-out in Reefton and consider that the Labour Department should have taken .a ca,fce if only to test the legal position and in order to facilitate, a settlement afterwards,” is the opening - sentence in the Trade and Labour Council’s reply to the appeal of Mr. Fagan on behalf of.the Reefton miners, “but seeing that your union has completely handed over its control of your dispute to the Executive of the New Zealand Federation of Labor,” the reply goes on, “and that that Federation is antagonistic and opposed to the principles of the United Labour Party, which party this Council is resolved to join, we cannot recommend our affiliated unions to give direct approval of the policy and principles of the New, Zealand Federation under the guise and in the form of monetary assistance to your union.” T'.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 July 1912, Page 5
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