FEDERATION OF LABOUR

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 119, 20 May 1912, Page 3

FEDERATION OF LABOUR

THIS WEEK'S CONFERENCE. The Federation of Labour Conference will be held in Wellington, commencing next Thursday. Mr. P. C. Webb will preside. Consideration will be given to remit* from various unions (already published for the most part in the Evening Post). There are seventy veinils. The conference will be waited on by deputations from the Socialist Party and the United Labour Party. A strong appeal will be made for tha appointment of more paid organisers for the Federation; the definition of th© duties of officers and organisers; also that no time specified agreements be made with employers or their representatives ; the handing over of the question, of politics to the Socialist Party, which shall be regarded as giving "expression to the industrial intelligence" ; and matters principally relating to the various industries linked up with the Federation. The preliminaries of the conference, which opens on Thursday, are under discussion to-day. The delegates, appointed are as follow :—: — President, Mr. P. C. Webb ; organiser, Mr. B. Semple; secretary, Mr. J. Glover. Miners' Unions — Waikato, Mr. J. E. Duncan; Denniston. Messrs. J. Scott and J. Montgomery ; Granity, Messrs J. Newman and J. Dowgray ; State (Dunollie), Mr. H. .Coppersmith; Otago, Green Island, Mr.. E. N. Ridd ; Puponga, Mr. J. Dowgray ; Taitapu, Mr. S. A. Tilley; Waihi, Messrs. W. E. Parry and H. Kennedy ; Inangahua, Messrs. JR. Crowley and M. Fagan ; BlacEball, Mr. W. Bromilow ; Dcnnistou Enginedrivers, Mr. E. Power; Seddonvilit, Mr. J. Cumniing. General Laboui-firs, West Coast Workers, Messrs. H. T. Armstrong and P. H. Hickey ; Canterbury Labourers, Messrs. E. J. Howard, A. Paterson, and J. Flood ; Auckland General Labourers, Messrs. P. Fraser and J. B. King ; Westport Labour Union, Mr. T. Stephenson. Transport Branch — Wellington, Messrs G. Bruce, D. Reidy, W. Young; Auckland, Mr. E. Canham ; Foxton, Mr. E. J. Martin ; Dunedin, Mr. H. Morris ; Nelson, Mr. F. Dv Feu; Lyttelton, Timaru. Patea, Transport Executive; j Auckland Tramways, Messrs. P. Richardson and A. Rosser. Shearers — Shearers' Association, Messrs J. A. King, M. Laracy, and W. Johnstone. Auckland Brewery Workers' Union — Mr. M. J. Savage. Wellington Gas Stokere' Union — Mr. Jame6 Roberts. Manawatu Flaxmillers 1 — Messrs. U. H. Dalhousie, G. M. Briggs, and J. R. Brown. ■