Anti-war Movement
CONGRESS AT WELLINGTON WELLINGTON, Feb. 3. Over fifty delegates representing trade unions, anti war movement, women’s welfare organisations and branches of the Communist and Labour Parties throughout New Zealand are attending the first all-New Zealand congress against war and Fascism on Saturday and to-day. Among those present is Senator A. Rae, a Labour member of the Australian Federal Parliament. Mr. W. H. Nugent, the organiser of the corresponding Australian movement, said that the meeting was a prelude to a great number of such gatherings and the building in New Zealand of the largest organisation of its kind. A resolution was passed pledging those present to organise the great masses of the people of New Zealand into one great united organisation in opposition to war and Fascism so that they would be able to act, if called upon to do so, with the other sections of the world movement in preventing war and the spread of Fascism. With one dissentient, a motion protesting at the Government’s prolonging its term of office was passed. The programme for the movement was presented and held over for adoption. Strong disapproval of the imprisonment of Gerald Griffon and Egon Ivisch, and the attitude of the New Zealand Government in the matter, was expressed by the congress which received messages from both men.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 9
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219Anti-war Movement Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 9
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