TRADE UNIONISTS AS M.P.'S
WELLINGTON, Dec. 3. A decision of* the national council of the Federation of Lahour to urge nomination within the Lahour Party, of candidates with an industrial bacnground, was announced in a statement made tonight hy the secretary of the federation, Mr. K. McL. Baxter. He said that at a meeting of the national council in Wellington, a proposal urging that the federation should seriously consider the advisability of standing industrial candidates against Lahour Members of Parliament, was rejected and tne following resolution carried: "That the national council calls upon affiliations to forward remits to the 1948 annual conierences of the New Zealand Federation of Labour and New Zealand Labour Party, in favour of the nomination and selection of Pariiamentary Labour Party candidates by a ballot of members from affiliated unions ani Labour Party branches. The national council also urges members of affiliations to the Federation of Labour a.td members of affiliations to the Labour Party, to nominate and support the selection of Parliamentary Labour Party candidates with a trade union back-, grouiid and working-ciass understanding."
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 December 1947, Page 5
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