POLITICAL UNITY MOVE
COMMUNIST PARTY AND LABOUR DEFEAT AT FEDERATION CONFERENCE WELLINGTON, June 14. A proposal for electoral unity between the New Zealand Labour Party and the. New Zealand Communist Party and the New Zealand Federation of Labour for the return of the Labour Government was keenly supported by Communist speakers at the annual conference of the Federation of Labour to-day. but was clearly deThe proposal came from the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Union, who argued that this measure would unite the effort of all progressive people to secure a Labour victory, at the next election. A further motion, supported by the Communists but rejected by the conference, was that all representatives of the Federation of Labour appointed to confer with the New Zealand Labour Party and other organisations should be elected without regard to political opinion or attachment. Democratic Labour Party supporters raised the issue as it affected 'them, but there was no resolution In the matter. _______
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24902, 15 June 1946, Page 6
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