TRADES & LABOUR COUNCIL.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 2034, 23 December 1907, Page 5

TRADES & LABOUR COUNCIL.

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Wellington, December 23. The Wellington Furniture Trades’ Union has.seceded from the Trades and Labour Council because of the attitude of the latter body in connection with election of a deputy representative of workers on the Arbitration Court. A letter was seut by the Council expressing regret that some of the Unions had been disloyal to the recommendations of the Annual Conference. The Union decided to secede and passed a resolution to the effect that the Trades and Labour Council is not a bona fide labour body inasmuch as it is controlled by others than practical trades unionists, who insist on being recognised as the monthipeco ®of trades unionism and labour generally and that they use coercive means to silence opposition, and this means afperpetual state of strife which is detrimental to the best interests of labour.