SPECIAL MEETING TO BE HELD

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22513, 22 September 1938, Page 4

SPECIAL MEETING TO BE HELD

CANTERBURY CLERKS*

UNION

DISAFFILIATION FROM N.Z. ASSOCIATION PROPOSED

A motion to leave the New Zealand body will be debated by the Canterbury Clerks’ Union at a special meeting that will be held next Tuesday evening. The Union, which through its membership in the New Zealand Clerical Association Is affiliated to the Federation of Labour, recently elected an executive on the policy of non-am-liation with the federation, and it os now thought necessary to allow the members of the union to decide directly for or against continuing affiliation with the federation. . The meeting is to be held in the Choral Hall, and the motion before the meeting will be:— ■ ■ ■ f , , “That the Canterbury Clerks, Cashiers’, and Office Employees’ Industrial Union of Workes disaffiliates from the New Zealand Clerical Employees’ Association." . The circular calling the meeting states that the executive, which was elected on the understanding that it was opposed to affiliation with the New Zealand Federation of Labour, now finds that through affiliation with the New Zealand Clerical Workers' Association, the union is a member of the federation. It was felt by the executive that the decision to remain or leave should be taken out of the hands of the executive, and that members should be asked to decide the issue. The notice calling the meeting is signed by Mr T. Nuttall, secretary of the union, and states that only financial members will be allowed into the hall.

The union staff is at present busypacking up the records and office furniture to remove it to the new office in Bates’s Buildings, 136 Worcester street, in accordance with the resolution carried at the last meeting to vacate the Trades Hall office.