Reds And Pinks In The

Cook Islands

THE struggle in the Cook Islands be tween the Cook Islands Progress As sociation and the Waterside Union there is now being carried on among New Zealand trade unionists. The CIPA is sponsored by the Auckland Watersiders, who are suspected of having strong Com munist associations. The Cook Islands Waterside Union seems to be attached in some way to the New Zealand Federation of Labour which claims to be Pink rather than Red —but which nevertheless has a strong nuisance value. About the middle of February, the Federation and the Waterside Workers’ Union were having a Cook Islands squabble in New Zealand, the probable outcome of which was the despatch of a special investigator to the Cook Islands.