Workers' Federation
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For New Guinea
A Papua-New Guinea Workers' Federation will be established in Port Moresby in the next few weeks with the assistance of a £2,000 grant from the Australian Council of Trade Unions.
The Federation is expected to have as its members a dozen workers' associations throughout the Territory —all of whom are currently being asked, by secret ballot, whether they will affiliate.
The Federation will have a full time secretary, who must be in digenous, on a salary of £l,OOO a year. Fifty per cent, of local workers' association funds will go to the Federation, one of whose first jobs will be to negotiate for a Territory-wide basic wage.