MASS MEETING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27390, 16 May 1950, Page 4

MASS MEETING

Oval Next Sunday LABOUR ORGANISATION’S DECISION A combined meeting of delegates to the Otago Trades Council and executive members of affiliated unions decided last night that a mass meeting should be held on the Oval next Sunday. In a statement supplied to the Daily Times after the meeting the secretary of the Trades Council, Mr L. F. Evans, said that a committee had been elected from the meeting to get speakers representing the various sections of the public who were affected by the removal of subsidies and the rapidly-rising prices and services. The committee would make arrangements for the meeting, including the provision of a public address system. The delegates from the Tramways Union, which had suggested a mass meeting in the Main Town Hall, were agreeable to the choice of the Oval, Mr Evans added. Mr Evans said that a further decision had been reached to request the Federation of Labour to organise a one-day demonstration throughout New Zealand on the day of the opening of Parliament and to make the suggestion that no work should be done on that day. The acting president of the council, Mr J. Dalziel, presided at the meeting. Mr Evans told the Daily Times that there had been no discussion on the dispute between the Federation of Labour and the Trade Union Congress.