ONE LARGE UNION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19170, 9 November 1925, Page 9

ONE LARGE UNION.

NEW MOVE IN BRITAIN. r railwaymen stand out. (Received 5.E p.m.) Senter —Suiu LONDON. Nov. 6. British labour has taken a further step toward forming a combine more numerous than the former proposed triple alliance. The executive of the Miners', Railwaymen, Transport Workers', Locomotive Engineers ami Firemen's, Electrical Trades and Amalgamated Engineering Unions, representing 4,000,000 workers, have agreed to draft a constitution for a new alliance This will guarantee mutual assistance, firstly, to defend hours, wages and standards of living; secondly, to promote and defend any vital principle. There :s a possible hitch owing to the attitude of the railwaymen, who have suggested that a fusion of allied unions in the same trades should be a condition of their entrance to the alliance. When the meeting of the executives rejected the railwayman's proposal Mr. J. EE. Thomas, the Litter's president, intimated that the Raiiwaymen's Union would reconsider its attitude toward the proposal. Subsequently it was officially stated that, under the present conditions, the .National Union of Railwaymen would not be a party to the proposed alliance. No delegate conference of railwaymen is to be summoned to consider the question.