TO JOIN FORCES

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10287, 23 May 1919, Page 4

TO JOIN FORCES

TRANSPORT WORKERS AND MINERS.

The official statement was made yesterday that ,at a recent conference, held ,m, Wellington, ..between the* New Zealand Miners’ Federation and the New Zealand Transport. AYorkers’ Federa- v tion a basis of agrspa^t,•w^ - qiteided£ upon under which 'these ’t\irb *’big or-; - ' ganisations shall join forces,' 1 and thiis make an industrial organisation which will bo by far the largest in New Zea-’ land: The constitution-is. subject to the" approval of the several separate orgaiiisations’afiiliated to either the. Tran- , ... port Workers’ Federation--of- the-Min-ers’ Federation; " : - - . It is estimated that if the latest move meets with approval the membership of the organisation, wilP cotnpriso about 50,000 men,.. "• ■ «-The Transport Workers’ Federation includes the tramwaymen, the drivers, the seamen, the waterside workers, and , the railwaymen (with the exception of . the Locomotive Engine-drivers’, Firemen, and Cleaners’ Association). _ In conversation with prominent railwaymen yesterday, a “Times” reporter was informed that the Government had absolutely driven them (to .take, euph ac- .. . , tion. The the Appeal Board’s, decision in, .the ... Longton cose had practically been the last straw. ,