LABOURERS' UNION
Result of Ballot Favours H.B. Control Approximately 65 per cent of those who voted in the recent ballot to deeide the jurisdiction of the Hawke'fi Bay General Labourers' Union were in favour of the continuance of the Union 's affiliation to the Federation of General Labourers, rather than as a branch of the Wellington Union. The ballot was held by the Federation of Labour to decide the issue, tb.3 proposals being: (1) in favour of the continuance of the Hawke's Bay Uni. >n being affiliated to the Federation of General Labourers; and (2) in favour of the Wellington General Labourers* Union with a branch office in Hawke's Bay. The voting was as follows:-— Direct affiliation 36? Branch affiliation 202 Majority for direct affiliation .. 165 "This will mean that the local union will have sole jurisdiction in Hawke 'a Bay of all labourers working undo; awards to which the Hawke's Bay Union is a paTty," said Mr H. Kay, general secretary of the H.B. Union, this morning, in a statement announcing the result of the ballot. "The union will include all eounty council labourers," he added.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 61, 4 December 1937, Page 4
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