[1] The ATUC represented black African workers, and was opposed to the system of white minority rule in Rhodesia.
[1][5] The SRATUC absorbed the older organisation a year later in 1963, with the combined body adopting the name African Trade Union Congress.
[6] We as a trade union are fully prepared to throw our weight behind the nationalist party's fight - after all, we all want to get rid of the present minority government, but we want to do so as workers, with our own organisation.
Then we want our own organisation to defend our position and our rights; if we, then are merely an arm of the party we as workers will be defenceless.
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