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Bob Tūtaki (front row, second from right) poses with other organisers at a New Zealand Workers’ Union conference in 1925. Tūtaki was the only Māori at the first conference of the New Zealand Federation of Labour in 1937. He was responsible for the motto of the New Zealand Workers’ Union, ‘Tatau tatau, altogether’.
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Reference: John E. Martin, Tatau tatau: one big union altogether: the shearers and the early years of the New Zealand Workers’ Union. Wellington: New Zealand Workers' Union, 1987, p.
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