FEDERATION OF LABOUR.
>i.,.(pfcr Press Association.) u■ < Auckland, October 18. feting‘of thewaterff>r fo-day, to discuss the question of the strike, was postponed until Sunday on instructions reported that a good number pf- r,general labourers on strike are asking to be taken back to employment. The Tramway Union to-day decided by a large majority to secede from the Federation .of Labour. A secret ballot, at which a record vote was as follows: In fa’vbu'r of withdrawal 341, against withdrawal 171,' -fiTajbrity“for‘'withdrawal 170. T’he result of is thought.-to be partly <|ue to the hostile demonstration against the tramwaymen on the recent occasion of the 24 hours’ strike, in which| they declined to participate. The treatment accorded them roused their indignation, and doubtless weighed in the balance at to-day’s ballot.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 47, 19 October 1912, Page 6
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127FEDERATION OF LABOUR. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 47, 19 October 1912, Page 6
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