SEAMEN AND MINERS.
CONTROVERSY IN ENGLAND. ACTION BY TRADE CONGRESS. (Received October 27, 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON, Oct. 26. The general council of the Trades Union Congress has decided to support the complaint made by the Miners' Federation against the Sailors and Firemen's Union. The decision was not published, but was sent privately to each organisation. It is known that it gives the seamen 14 days in which to disclaim their intention of supporting the new nonpolitical Miners' Union and lending it £IO,OOO. Should the seamen not comply there is a precedent for its complete disaffiliation or suspension for a period of years. DIVISION IN THE RANKS. NUMBERS BREAKING AWAY. (Received October 27, 8.50 p.m.) Sun. LONDON. Oct, 27. The Westminster Gazette says 200,0C0 postal workers have resigned from the Trades Union Congress, and if the 80,000 seamen secede it will bring the total loss of membership, including the miners who have broken away, to ; between 700,000 and 1,000,000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19779, 28 October 1927, Page 11
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161SEAMEN AND MINERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19779, 28 October 1927, Page 11
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