LABOR AND POLITICS.

Mataura Ensign, 25 July 1914, Page 4

LABOR AND POLITICS.

——.— PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCf.V.' filft DIINIODLN, July '£>. At a meeting of cm-dial wirk.ir tlie following rcwihitiani wsw caw-v-Hl. "Tlui.t in view of till© nwtionnl <.-» adopted by the Federation -of l.«lmr n>i«|the Social Democratic Vaa-tv t)i:i ■ union. i« of opinion that before" th<» Otaao Labor Council csillnd' for i for seats at tlie- geii--/ . ; ■■■< -mo serious "onsickratiou ;.:,i ' K et\n given to linking up with kx-li. national parties, therefore. a» a union which ha® just affiliated' with the ("jtago .Labor Council. We refuse. .!<) -take p-irt in the paid liojnimatfen® or in amy ,vwv to countenance their aetf-m v. hick a-fc the very .rwvt aaid frwukviiwi of Labor's solidiarity ill Ne .r '/,< -ilmd. Furthermore, wo instruct our sotsre-tttorv to give notice to withdraw cur affiliation from, the Council and ito «*k ot.hw unions to foil on- suit y.o that sectional action. either in. the indiwdal «iv p:>liiiipa,l field will roneive <mwo for all the severest reprobation."