BETTERMENT OF WORKERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 28, 1 February 1913, Page 5

BETTERMENT OF WORKERS.

RESOLUTIONS AT THE LABOUR

CONFERENCE.

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LONDON, January 31

The Labour Conference passed a resolution tha tthe Insurance Amendment Act should become universal and nOncontributorv. favoured an tight hours' day for all workers, abolition of unemployment, a national minimum wage of 30/ weekly, complete provision against sickness, healthy homes for everyone, and abolition of the poor law.

UNIONISTS AND TRADE UNIONS

(Received 12.50 p.m.)

LONDON, January 31. In the House of Commons the Trade Union Bill passed its third reading.

The Right Hon. Uonur Law said he agreed that the Osborne judgment placed a trades union in an invidious position. It was only right that unions should have liberty to engage in politics. It. was untrue that the Unionists were opposed to trade unions. The latter's efforts in the House of Commons to improve social conditions and wages had been a lamentable failure. Tilings were so bad that Socialists had captured the organisation. Trade unions could only be successful if the men acted as a solid union. Owing to differences of political views among members it was not desirable that trade unions should he identified with any one party.

Sir R. Isaacs denied the assertion that the Labour party bad not secured improvement in wages and conditions.