. WELLINGTON, Dec. 18." Exeeption " to the aetion of the national exeeufive of the New Zealand Tramways Employees ' Union in issuing an ' ' instruction " to oppose peacetime mijitary cdnscrfptionj yvas taken ,today bj/ML G- N. Amos, a member of tW Natiolial Oouncil„aiidif'®resident pf , jtjxje' Wellington 'branch. Jle. said tlie uni/^n executive had atteinpted to dietate -to; the membership - as " a whole. ' It had iloxight tO' instruet anybo'dy on • the issuc until it received the ( sanction of the union. The couhcil of ' the Wellington branch recently decided that the trade union movement should wait until ,thc, return of the Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser) before considering the conscription question.- . "The decision rnay. represent the private opinions of membel'S of the union executive, but it is not binding" on the union until the National Couiicil chooses to make it binding, if it chooses to do so. The true position is that the National Couneil has not decided the question," he said.
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 December 1948, Page 7
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