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LABOUR ORGANISATION ALONG INDUSTRIAL LINES TO COMBAT SHOP UNIONS CRAFT PLAN DISCARDED By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 7.10 p.m. San Francisco, Oct. 12. The American Federation of Labour in convention to-day took the historic step of definitely changing its structure and policy. By a unanimous vote delegates approved of a resolution providing for the organisation of mass production industries along industrial or vertical lines rather than along craft or horizontal lines. Henceforth where a carpenter who is employed in an automobile industry and was once a member of the Carpenters’ Union he now belongs to the Automotive Union. Labour leaders hailed the step as a powerful means of combatting the growth of company fostered unions in the automobile, steel and other mass production industries. The convention renewed its pledge made last year to boycott German products because of “the Nazi enslavement of workers.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1934, Page 7
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