RURAL WORKERS.
- A PROPOSED AMALGAMATION. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Yesterday. At the fillerj'«t»' Conference, '(Hi. <!. Grayndier was elected vice-president. Seven delegates from tiie Rural Workers' Union and one from the l-aluicrston Coworkers' Union attended, and proposals drafted at the Shearers' Conference for rural amalgamation, were discussed at a combined conference, and negatived. An amendment was moved by Mr. E. Hunter: "That the conference advocates as its object the construction of one big union of workers employed in the agricultural and pastoral industry, viz., all farm station workers, creamery, butter and cheese factory employees, flaxmill workers, shearers,' shed hands, freezing works employees, and gum diggers." A resolution was passed that all classes of workers comprised in the New Zealand Shearers' and Wool-shed Workers' Union, Marlborough Rural Workers' Union, Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Workers' Union, and the Otago and Southland Farm Station Workers' Union arc desirous of amalgamation and that the conference set about obtaining such amalgamation,
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1915, Page 3
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