LABOUR COMBINE.
NEW ALLIANCE PROPOSED. CONSTITUTION APPROVED. Received November 7, 9.20 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 6. British Labour lias taken a further step to form a combine more numerous than tlie former triple alliance. The executives of tlie miners, railwaymen, transport workers, locomotive engineers, firemen, tlie Electrical Trades Union, and the Amalgamated Engineering Union, representing 4,000,000 workers, agreed to the draft of tlie constitution of tlie new alliance guaranteeing mutual assistance: (1) To defend hours and wages standards; (2) to promote and defend any vital principle or possible hitc-h due to tlie railwaymen’s attitude, and suggesting that fusion of the allied unions in tlie same trade should be tlie condition of their entering tlie alliance. When a meeting of tlie executive rejected tlie railwayman's proposal, Mr Thomas intimated that the Railwaymen’s Union would reconsider its attitude to the proposal.—Sydney Sun cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 287, 7 November 1925, Page 9
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