Federation of Labour and Communist W.F.T.U.

Chronicle (Levin), 18 February 1949, Page 2

Federation of Labour and Communist W.F.T.U.

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X BU. J-«. A (lecision on wketticr tlie New Zealnnd Federation of Labour wiil remaiu utliiialed to the World Federation of Trade Luions, was referred today by .the uational eouueil of the Federation lo the aunual eonferenee to be held in Wellington in May. The seeretary, Mr. lv. McL. -Baxter, baid that pfending the decision of the eonferenee, no -further atlihation iee> would be paid to the World Federation. The eouneil liad instructed also that the •seeretary circulate to affiliations, a statement eontaiuing information on Ihe events which led up to the elea\age in the World Federation which had'rehiiltcd in largc seetions witlidrawing Iheir aftiliation. " Tlyi eouneil received from Mr. Aibert Monk, representative of Austraiia and New 'Zealand on the exeeutive eouneil „f Uie World Federation, a cabled message dated Paris, February 13, >u which he'said that at the Paris meeting of the World Federation he abTlained from voting on the question of , ontinuanee of the W.F.T.U. and liad tatel he eould not eoiuuut Austraiia and New Zcaland." The annual con- ' ,,ress would be held at Milan in June r,ut there-was no hope of the Bntisii trade union mo'vcmeut reeonsideriug xta decision to witlulraw from the federa- - tion Mr. %Toti1c said , all exeeutivo poKitions in the W.F.T.U., both those of > oftieers and of paid exeeutives, were uow held bv Uommunists and the organisation would be entirely Connnunist eontrolled. ' — —