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In order to give effect to the decisions of Conference it was agreed that a special committee be set up to bring down an outline of a constitution to Conference covering the decisions of Conference, and that after Conference rose the committee work out a constitution and rules to be submitted to a combined conference to be held at a future date.

The election of a committee to undertake this important work created the keenest interest, and resulted in the following delegates being chosen:— Messrs. R. S. Ross, R. Semple, P. Fraser, H. Hunter, W. T. Young, W. E. Parry, W. Belcher, H. E. Holland, W. T. Mills, P. C. Webb, E. Tregear, and P. H. Hickey. The committee, which contained seven Federationists and five U.L.P.-ers, sat all day and arrived at unanimous conclusions for the industrial and political unity of the working-class. The committee’s findings for industrial unity were moved by Mr. Webb, on behalf of the committee. The report read as follows:—

That this Conference recommends the following outline as indicating the lines along which a constitution should be drawn up by the sub-committee set up to draft a constitution to be considered, amended if necessary, and adopted by the joint Congress of unions to be held in Wellington, commencing on the first Tuesday in July, 1913. Your committee also recommends that the proposed conference to be held in July shall forthwith inaugurate the new body as a going concern.