WHITE AND BLACK.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 31 March 1927, Page 7

WHITE AND BLACK.

FRO POSED WORKER’S' FUSION STIR IN SOUTH AFRICA. Quite a stir has been caused in Labour ranks in South Africa by the proposal of the International Federation of the 'Trade Unions, Amsterdam, to accept affilation of the I.C.U. a coloured and native trade union), provided the latter agreed to join a white and coloured organisation, Air AY. H. Andrews, secretary of the South Africa Trade Union Congress, said ; t w uld take some time before it would be possible to adopt that policy ir. South Africa. Clements Kadalie. a native organiser and national secretary of the I.C.U. said the native and coloured workers in South Africa were quite prepared to effect loyal fusion with the whites, for they believed, that the be-s workers of South Africa can only he served by united action. Maintaining that the fusion of white and black in the national labour n>r-e----inent would kill racial prejudice. Air. Kadalie, while indicating that he was not speaking on behalf of the union, expiessed the personal be!.of tb.it the European would not favour the formation of a national centre. “White workers.” he concluded, “are prepared to nut race prejudice before everything else. Tn other words, they have more regard for their ccuonr of then- skim? than they have for the general interest of the workers as a whole. ”