TRADE UNION MOVEMENT
ONE BIG ORGANISATION PROPOSED (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. A proposal to form one big delegate organisation representing the whole of the trade union movement of the Dominion was considered at a conference in the Trades Hall, Wellington, yesterday, consisting of representatives of the New Zealand Alliance of Labour and the New Zealand Trades and Labour Council Federation. The plan is to form a body on the model of the Trades Union Congress in Great Britain. In outline, the proposal is that the new organisation should be pyramidal in structure, with the individual unions as the base. These in turn would be affiliated to district councils, and at the apex would be a national council. It is contended that this form of organisation is more democratic than federations of unions grouped under a national executive. Yesterday’s conference drafted a constitution for the new organisation, and prepared plans for a national conference of delegates from all the industrial bodies in the Dominion. This conference will finally determine the structure and policy of the projected organisation.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 17 December 1936, Page 13
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