MILITARY TRAINING
STRONG OPPOSITION TRADE UNION FORCES Special Correspondent WELLINGTON, May 16. Strong forces are being marshalled within the trade union movement to opposfc any move the Government may make towards compulsory military training in peacetime. Nearly 42,000 workers were represented in the decision of the biennial conference of the New Zealand Transport Workers’ Federation to-day to oppose peacetime conscription. The federation comprises all the influential unions within the transport industry and the decision was reached, according to an official report, without dissent. The organisers of the anti-conscrip-tion movement plan to demonstrate with a procession and leaflets at the entrance to the Trades Hall during the conference of the New Zealand Federation of Labour this week. This demonstration was planned among the . delegates present at the conference of the Peace and Anti-conscription Federation held in Wellington during the week-end.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27082, 17 May 1949, Page 4
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