UNITY SCHEME

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 24 July 1925, Page 5

UNITY SCHEME

LABOUR ALLIANCE. ATTITUDE OF RAILWAIMER. MORE CONSIDERATION NEEDED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, July 22. The attitude of the Railwaymen’s Union executive towards the proposed labour alliance is defined in a> statement published in the Railway Review, wherein the executive, while agreeing to the aim of the proposed alliance, is still firmly of the opinion that unless a complete understanding is obtained on the linest the executive previously indicated, such alliance is bound to encounter internal difficulties. Therefore, it considered the joint sub-com-'mittees should again reconsider the Nvhole, proposition, keeping in mind the important factors which are essential to the future well-being of the alliance. The latest available official statistics of the strength of the unions concerned in the proposed alliance show tliat a •combination of something over 2,000,000 workers is contemplated. The af‘filiatefl membership of the big unions at the last Trades Union Congress was as follows: Miners 750,000 National Union of Railwaymen 325,000 Locomotive Engineers 59,000 Transport and General Workers 295,000 Amal. Engineering Union 245,000 In addition, there are the two federations, but the affiliated unions to these organisations do not include all the unions engaged in transport or in shipbuilding and engineering.