LEADERS REBUKED
TRADE UNION CONGRESS. CONSCRIPTION ISSUE. DRASTIC PROPOSALS LOST. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received May 20, 9.40 a.m. LONDON, May 19. By an overwhelming majority of 3,923,000 to 550,000, a card vote by t-lie Trade Union Congress defeated their advocates’ drastic action against conscription and accepted the council’s recommendation that trade unionists should not withdraw their co-operation from the Government in voluntary national service for civil defence. The Congress also rejected by 4.172,000 votes to 425,000 the railwaymen’s proposal for a general, strike against conscription.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 144, 20 May 1939, Page 9
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