In Opposition To Peace-time Conscription
WELLINGTON, May 15. The Peace and Anti-conseription Federation held its second conference in Wellington on Saturday. Delegates from district councils of the federatiou attended from all over New Zealand and also ineluded were representatives from trades and labour councils. Organisations represented on a national basis were the New Zealand Waterside Workers, Union, New Zealand Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, New Zealand Tramway Workers' Union, New Zealand Communist Party, New Zealand Peace Union, New Zealand Student Labour Eederation, New Zealand F"ederation of Yonng People 's Clubs, and the national executive of the Democratic Labour Party. These organisatious alone have a membership of some 25,800.This conference concerned itself essentially with immediate ways and means of organising feeling throughout the country in opposition to peace-time conscription.
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 May 1949, Page 3
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