AFFILIATION TO WORLD TRADE UNION BODY

Wanganui Chronicle, 18 February 1949, Page 5

AFFILIATION TO WORLD TRADE UNION BODY

N.Z. LABOUR FEDERATION TO DECIDE AT CONFERENCE WELLINGTON, Last Night (PA). —A decision on whether the New Zealand Federation of Labour will | remain affiliated to the World Federation of Trade Unions was referred today by the National Council of the Federation of Labour to the annual conference of the federation, to be held in Wellington in May. The secretary (Mr. K. McL. Baxter) said that pending a decision of ] the conference no further affiliation , fees would be paid to the World ' Federation. The council had instructed also that the secretary circulate to affiliations a statement containing information on events which led up to the cleavage in the World Federation, which had resulted in large sections withdrawing their affiliation from the World Federation Council, received from Mr. Albert Monk, representative of Australia and New Zealand on the executive council of the World Federation. In a cabled message dated, Paris, February 13, in which he said that at the Paris meeting of the World Federation he had abstained from voting on the question of continuance of W.F.T.U and had stated he could not commit Australia and New Zealand. The annual congress would be held at Milan in June, but there was no hope of the British trade union movement reconsidering its decision to withdraw from the federation. Mr. Monk said all executive positions in the W.F.T.U., both those of officials and of paid executives, were now held by Communists and the organisation would be entirely Communist controlled.