REPRESENTATION OF LABOUR.
ALLIANCE REQUEST TO MINISTER By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 17. A suggestion that Labour organisations should be consulted in connection with the matter of representation of Labour on the Investigation Committees set up by the Government, was made to the Minister of Labour (Hon. W. A. Veitch), to-day, by the Wellington Trades and Labour Council, as District Council of the Alliance of Labour. Mr W. Bromley, president of the Trades Council, said that the Council had discussed the personnel of the Workers’ Compensation Committee recently set up. They did not object to Mr T. Bloodworth sitting as Mr Blood worth, but it could not be held that he represented Labour in New Zealand, for Labour had not been consulted in the matter. It might occur, if committees were set up in that way, that unanimous recommendations might not have full sopport of Labour. He submitted that where the industrial movement was to be represented, apart from Parliamentary representation, it was advisable to appoint two representatives, including one chosen by the industrial movement. They asked the Government to follow that procedure, as was done in the case of unemployment investigation. Other members supported Mr Bromley.
Replying, the Minister said that the Committee had not been set up from a representative point of view, and he had been careful to avoid anybody who held strongly biassed views in any direction. If the Committee was* to be successful, it would need to have the support of all sides, and he, as Minister, would need to have the support of all if he was to give the workers of New Zealand the benefits which he believed he would be able to give them as a result of the proposed investigation. He admitted quite frankly that the appointment of Mr Bloodworth had not been on the advice of Labour leaders, but had been due to the fact that it was believed that Mr Bloodworth would be a valuable man on the Committee.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18520, 18 March 1930, Page 7
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