BRITISH INDUSTRY
TRADE UNION DEMANDS GOVERNMENT CONSULTATION INSISTENCE ON RIGHTS United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, July 27 The Secretary of the Trades Union Congress, Sir Walter Citrine, speaking at the annual conference of Trades Councils, said the trade union movement demanded Government consultation as a right. “ We had some difficulty in early stages of the war in securing a realisation of what we meant by consultation.'’ Sir Walter said,” but we were successful in getting a Conservative Prime Minister to instruct every department that it was necessary that the trades unions should be consulted it their members were even remotely affected.” Sir Walter denied any suggestion that the trades unions were trespassing on the preserves of the Labour Party. “ I do not want to create any barrier,” he said, “ but we will not allow politcal action to be substituted for direct trade union action. We shall insist on our rights where the interests of our members are concerned and the Government is wise to recognise this.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21177, 29 July 1940, Page 10
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167BRITISH INDUSTRY Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21177, 29 July 1940, Page 10
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