TRADES AND LABOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 16, 16 July 1910, Page 2

TRADES AND LABOUR.

ANNUAL 'COInTEKEnP? ' TS" AT3GK-. '■■ ■ . LAXD. . . . The annual' conference of the New Zealand 1 Xrades _ahci -J_>aiit>ttr ■comerence is ■Tb'ei>ij;"lield"thiar y&a,t" in" Auck-Uirid, and ""iptila." ia""the .Ai'ujAutpiu.. .Jpuiia-iags on j\±ouda-y next. It is eight years since the durihg ihe Tiiterinj' the various ;centre»• have been three tinies, Ciiristchuieh -twice; 'ifwenty-iour dele-gates'-'irdni ail- over the- Uonnrnon will "attend, most -of them arriving to-mor-_~tow\'by "the Main Trunk. To-morrow evening .the deleyates are to be present at a lecture on Trades' Unionisni by ilr . jB.. "Scott Bennett;-o£ Vi-etoria. T-he business..tp be considered at the conference is _ voluminous, and--w-i!l---prabably take the- week to gefc through. Included in the order gaper are the lollowing resolutions, remitted iroin the" -"different .-'Councils:— •■•••'• '■■ _ "iEROM-ACCKLAND. 'rliat-Rule ~— '&s£,: Objects be struck out, ;anjd;:.the;vfollowing substituted: The object t of the. Means ef aistribptioii and exchange." - That the "conference support rile-adojitfori of the "lliiioa."i>adse : ""as "a - jiieaTla -to'Tojx-in;; preference"xo nhiooists. -• That- areeonimend- the aciendmeiit .of the .Defence -Bill in cerms of 'Mr T-.-E-. -'£aylor : s ljte -motfour- t "Do- the -eftfeet that a citizeh"":soldiei:"snail always haye the right of appeal iroin uuy couw-niai-tial no the civil "Cbuhts or'the.litßjjJnicm,-"thereby ■ccalncaining the t prluciple_of the citizen 'beiovQ the .fioi<iipr* ,r * ' .. .- . —.- - ; -ZT'okz 2h£ cohfeieSce be rejjuested to de j Tise a scheme to—bring Labour closer gether, "a'eal tile, •nlany.breaches nowexisting- --....• FROST CANTFRBURY. Suggestion -from - Canterbury Engine Drii-eia'. jmdj.ireuienis. Unton;: "That jegls j lation be passed requiFiO£ di - ivers of'mocor -ana -moved .from place -to place by their' own motive power, to be! ■duly "certificated "and controlled; by the Machinery- Department. Su-cli drivers 'no; xo be usliter 13' years of age." • - . That the Government. ;ue lirged. .to. bring it _compulsory tobrand all goods made in tneMsoxnihlou with' the mark, "Ma"de lavJftZt:"-v in view of the fact that, the land for' settlement system of. this Dominion is creating a reactionary force.in N.Z. politics, Tiz., the demand for the freehold by the Grown tenants; -that;-this -conference express aa opinion it is in the.'bfifit iuterests.lof The New Zealand workers that the systembe abolished, and- that. the. land be farmed.' directly by the State; the produce to be retailed in. town and,.country..depots, at a price that wiU-cover-eost-of-proauction and capital charges. Canterbury--also suggests ; a .number of im-portant-amendments u> the'Conjciliationvand'. Arbiiration ■- Act. — : ~..,-, ..:FHOil__g-ISBORKE. That the -eovernmetrt be - urged to make-tt-lUegal for public, use their funds to a-id employers dn-eombating ?the benefits conferred on workers -by the Arbitration Act............. __FROM eOUTJHL-AN-D. That the 'Government be urged to bring.' in a bill 'to"make the Legislative CouncilCleejiTe, -with 'the view of finally abolishing it. ■' '-'-. "TRO3I WELLINGTON. That "the rexmference resolve upon the esitablishment of -.in Independent Political JLabour party, sinti draw up a statement of principle and lighting .platform of same, and-suggest methods for organising the elec- . tors in. anpporl of Labour jcaudidates at nest elections.