WIDE INTEREST
DUNEDIN MAY DAY CHOICE OF SPEAKERS INDUSTRIAL AND POLITICAL (P.A.) WELLINGTON, April 14. Exceptional interest is developing over the arrangements made by the Dunedin May Day celebration committee for observing the occasion between the annual conferences of the New Zealand Federation of Labour and the New Zealand Labour Party. Guest speakers representing the industrial and political Labour movements are being invited to address a meeting in the Dunedin Town Hall on Sunday night. May 2. The committee has invited Mr. HBarnes. Auckland, national secretary of Ihe New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Union, to appear as the industrial speaker and Mr. Barnes has replied that he will be very pleased to address the assembly, adding that he did not yet know the identity of the political spokesman. In Wellington Labour movement there aVe suggestions that a political representative may be invited from the highest Government level.
A formal invitation from the Dunedin May Day committee states that the meeting is to be a fitting celebration of the occasion and to permit political and industrial speakers to place before the audience the significance of May Day and the need for solidarity of the working-class movement.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22612, 15 April 1948, Page 6
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194WIDE INTEREST Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22612, 15 April 1948, Page 6
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