FURTHER OPPOSITION
CANTERBURY TRADES COUNCIL P.A. CHRISTCHURCH Oct. R The Canterbury Trades Council is opposed to the conscription of manpower for military training or service in time of peace. The following resolution was carried at a meeting of the council this evening:—“That immediate representations be made to the National Executive of the Federation of Labour for the calling of a special national conference immediately to discuss and decide the question of conscription and war.” The secretary of the council, Mr A. B. Grant, said the council was opposed to conscription on working class, democratic, and moral grounds. ‘ The council considers that contemporary history proves that armed preparedness does not stop war,” the statement continues. ‘‘The council, as a body of workers’ delegates, reserves the right to define its attitude to any possible war which may eventuate. If and when open warfare breaks out, we reserve the right, as thinking people, to consider whether or not we would favour conscription, and this can only be done when we know against whom and what we are fighting.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26903, 15 October 1948, Page 6
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