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ECONOMIC COUNCIL

Possible Wage Claim Role (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 2. Appealing to the delegates attending the annual conference of the Federation of Labour for unity in the federation's ranks, the president (Mr F. P. Walsh) said there was no room for more than one body in the trade union movement. Members of the federation should abide faithfully by conference decisions, as it was only by doing so that the unions could continue to grow and progress as disciplined, effective bodies able to protect the welfare of wage and salary-earners. “We now have a Government which is opposed to us.” Mr Walsh said. “It is showing its opposition every day.” The Government, immediately it came up against a thorny problem, “passed the buck” by setting up the Eeonomic and Monetary Council, a body with no responsibility to the electors. Mr Walsh forecast that when next an application for a general wage order came before the Arbitration Court, witnesses would be called by the newly-created council to say that to grant the whole, or part, of any claimed increase would endanger the country’s economic stability. Mr Walsh said he disagreed with Mr Nash’s endorsement of the setting up of the council.

“Unless the trade union movement can act as a unified body,” he added, "it will lose heavily during the term of this Government when it is caught between an employers’ government and the employers themselves.” (Mr Walsh’s address Page 12)

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Press, Volume C, Issue 29503, 3 May 1961, Page 16

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ECONOMIC COUNCIL Press, Volume C, Issue 29503, 3 May 1961, Page 16

ECONOMIC COUNCIL Press, Volume C, Issue 29503, 3 May 1961, Page 16

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