SELECTION DISPUTED
ALLIANCE CANDIDATE LABOUR CONFERENCE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this clay. Mr. A. Cook, the president of the old Alliniic6 of Labour and sccrefafy of the New Zealand Uhion, made a statement to-day in regard to. the report. that Mr. TV G. Yoting, the secretary' of the Hotel Workers’ Federation, had bhen selected by the Alliance of Labour as the nominee for the workers’ representative at the International Labour Conference at Geneva.
“Mr. Young has not been selected by the Alliance of Labour, although he may have been selected by a -coterie of that organisation,” said Mr. Toole. “The workers of New Zealand must realise that a split occurred in the Alliance of' Labour at the Raster conference of 103(i, and probably Mr. Young, who was one of the delegates who attempted to alter the constitution, has now been selected by those wli'6 were responsible for this alteration. The principal Labour organisations in the Alliance of Labour have not had anv say in the .selection of Mr. Young- and, therefore, cannot support him.” '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19248, 13 February 1937, Page 6
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