MAJORITY DECISIONS MUST RULE
WELLINGTON, June 3. Pailure to accept majority decisions wouid only lead to the destruction of discipline and the disintegration of the labour movement, said the president of the New Zealand Federation of Labour, Mr. A. W, Croskery, in his address at the opening- of the anuual conference of the federation today. v MThe economic circumstanqes are not all just as we would like them,". said Mr. Croskery, ""but we can at least console ourselv-es with the fact that we are in a muofi more favourable position than the workers and people of most other eountries. At the very least we can claim there is no one in New Zealand who is denied the necessities of life. The future of trade unionism rests on the ability of the workers in their unions* of the delegates to the national unions, of national councils and annual conferences, to understand that trade union democracy rests upon the basis of majority decisions and tbe. ability of the minority on any question to accept a majority decision. Failure to appreoiate this fundamental fact of trade unionism must lead to tbe destruotion of discipline and the disintegration of our labour movement."
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 June 1947, Page 5
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