TRADE UNIONS
WORLD FEDERATION
PAN-PACIFIC SECTION PLANNED Industrial Correspondent. WELLINGTON, Nov. 13. A pan-Paciflc section of the World Federation of Trade Unions will be set up next year with headquarters at Sydney or Hongkong. Sydney, if chosen, will become the focal point for the co-ordination of trade union policy throughout Australia, New Zealand, Malaya, Indonesia, Korea and China, the Philippines, India and Burma. A special Far East conference will be held at the next meeting in Paris of the World Federation. The federation maintains at its headquarters in Paris a central office staff of more than 100, of 10 nationalities and speaking all European and some Asiatic languages. A similar organisation in Sydney would have a thoroughly pan-Pacific flavour, since the central office would employ not only Australians and New Zealanders, but Chinese, Filipinos, Indonesians and Indians on its staff. The new organisation would have no power to direct internal union affairs in Australia, New Zealand, or any other country, but it would exercise considerable influence on international questions and would seek to co-ordinate the work and. policy of unions in all Pacific countries.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26618, 14 November 1947, Page 4
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