LABOUR BODY’S EDICT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 943, 9 April 1930, Page 1

LABOUR BODY’S EDICT

“BUCK” COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY . DIVISIONS IN WELLINGTON Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. Interesting developments are expected to take place in Labour circles in Wellington as the result of the Alliance of Labour urging the unions to strain from giving evidence before the committee inquiring into the Workers’ compensation Act. It has been indicated already that there is no unanimity among Labour officials and to a certain extent matters came to a head at a recent meeting of the Trades and Labour Council, which is affiliated to ibe Alliance of Labour as a district council. When a motion was moved support's the action of the Natonal Council the Alliance of Labour it was debated, though not by a very substan!>al majority. The matter is to be discussed again by the Trades and Labour Council at its next meeting, which it ls stated should be eventful CHRISTCHURCH SUPPORT alliance action endorsed Press Association CHRISTCHURCH. Tuesday. \ The following resolution was carried : J; v overwhelming majority at a • footing of trades unionists after hearaddresses by Messrs. \V. A. Cook ,lames Roberts, representing the Alliance of Labour:—"That this meet- ; of Christchurch trade unionists •ndoraes the action of the New Zen- j • n d Alliance of Labour in refusing to o-operate with the committee ap- • Pointed by the Government to report \ a the Workers’ Compensation Act. as, ; th °P* n i° n of organised workers, I Government should have consulted : Junions in the appointment of i *Presentatives of workers."