LABOUR MERGER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22670, 6 March 1937, Page 16

LABOUR MERGER

PROPOSAL SUPPORTED ORGANISATION OF UNIONS The proposal to form a national organisation merging the Now Zealand •Trades and Labour Councils Federation and the New Zealand Alliance of Labour into one body received the support of delegates representing 44 unions, who attended a special meeting held at the Christehurch Trades Hall this week. The meeting was convened jointly bv the Canterbury Trades and Labour Council and the Canterbury District Council of the Alliance of Labour. The preamble to the proposed constitution states that it is desirable for the furtherance of unionism in New Zealand that a definite federation of Labour unions should bo maintained. The federation, while leaving to each union full sell-government over its own industrial affairs, will be a means of securing unity of action- on all general matters for the common welfare of unionism. The meeting passed a resolution pledging "its loyalty to the Trades and Labour' Councils Federation and the New Zealand Alliance of Labour in their determination to draft a constitution that truly represents the whole of the industrial workers throughout New Zealand." Two further resolutions were passed. The first was tlmt "the proposed conference called conjointly by tlie New Zealand Trades and Labour Council* Federation and the New Zealand Alliance of Labour, to be held in Wellington on March 2'j, be an 'all-in* conference." The second dealt with the representation at the conference, which it mus resolved should be in accordance with the constitution of the Nd>v Zealand Labour Partj*