WELLINGTON NEWS.
(BY TKLKGRAPH —PItKSS ASSOCIATION'.) Wellington, Last Nigh*. Thk Premier has received a cablegram confirming the appointment of Lord Glasgow us Governor of the colony. The Trades and Labour Council have drawn up a manifesto to trade unionists with regard to the action of the Council in resolution claiming the right to be consulted with regard to the selection and appointment of labour representatives to the Legislative Council. The manifesto states that the resolution upheld the fundamental principle of liberalism, viz., the right of the people to choose their own representatives in Parliament and the Council. It contended that as the capitalists have always been in the majority in the Council, the Unionists of Wellington, who are a numerous section of workmen, as well as any other labour organisation have a right to a voice in the selection of such representatives. The manifesto denies that in claiming that right they were dictating to the Government. In what they had done they had acted earnestly in the interest of labour according to their intelligence, and therefore they feared not the censure of their opponents.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3055, 13 February 1892, Page 2
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184WELLINGTON NEWS. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3055, 13 February 1892, Page 2
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