Another Union Considering Disaffiliation
: AUCKLAND, Sept.. 5. Proposals that the union should disaffiliate from the Labour Party and Federation of Labour will be put to the monthly meeting of , the Morthern (exeept Q-isborne) Drivcrs' Union this week. They are understood tp emapate from ' nolices of motion by the rank and file members of 4he union. ' The suggestlon that the union secede from the federation is likely to be withdrawn meantime at 'e'ast, as the constitufion. of the federation does not " allow a disafliliation motion to pe put without a representative 'of the" federation Deing present. : Known also as the Auckland Drivers1 Union, the Northern union has a membership of about 4000. It is the second union here to concider disaffiiiation from the Labour Party, the other being the Auck"and branch >f the Watorside Workers' Union, which recomnended this course to the national ^xecutive^
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 September 1949, Page 4
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143Another Union Considering Disaffiliation Chronicle (Levin), 5 September 1949, Page 4
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