LABOR FEDERATION
RECONSTITUTED BODY DOMINION CONFERENCE A (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last, night-. The recently re-established Trades and Pabor Councils Federation held its first conference during the Easter holidays. Delegates were present from Auckland, Canterbury, and Wellington Councils. The conference was presided over by Mr W. Bromley, president of the federation. The national council of the federation will be located in Wellington for the ensuing year. The political expression of the federation will be made through the New Zealand Labor Party, which the federation will support, and co-operate, with. The conference unanimously decided to place upon record its appreciation pt the magnificent tight put, up on behalf of the workers by Hie Parliamentary Labor Party against the Finance Pill introduced i>v the Government,” The Government’s unemployment scheme was generally condemned by all speakers. . The conference expressed its confidence in the two Labor rcpresentaiyes upon Hie Unemployment Board. 1 was decided to retain proportional representation as a plank of the party platform and the national executive was instructed to inquire, into the systems of, proportional representation in operation in other parts of the world.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17437, 8 April 1931, Page 10
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