LABOUR IN CONFERENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 87, 12 April 1922, Page 4

LABOUR IN CONFERENCE.

REDUCTION OF BONUS. THE P. AND T. ACTION. '■ONE BIG UNION" ENDORSED. ' A meeting of union executives w held last evening in the Foresters' Hah for the purpose of discussing the pro--1 n ounce mc nt of the Arbitration Court regarding the reduction of the wages bonus. Representatives of 20 unions attended. Mr. V. Man in. president of the Auckland Labour Council, was in tbc chair. i It. wa* decided to send Mr. T. Bloodworth to represent Auckland at tbe sitting of the Arbitration Court to he held in Wellington at the ned of the present [ month, when representative* of the four centres "ivill givp evidence on behalf of the unions. In connection with the recent affiliation of the Post and Telegraph Association with the Alliance of Labour the meeting passed the following resolution-. t "Thie meeting of union representatives congratulate? the P. and T. Association on its decision to join the ranks of Labour. The meeting would remind the Employers" Federation and other kindred organisations who are objecting to this decision that the P. and T. Association has a right to any form of organisation along constitutional lines. The meeting therefore pledges itself to support the P. and T. Association if necessary. The meeting went on to consider the question of closer organisation of industrial unions and passed the following: ■'This meeting; recommends that a National Conference be convened for the purpose of considering ways and mean* of amalgamating the Alliance of Labour, i the Australasian Workers' I'nion. and all other trades unions in Xew Zealand"' Mr. L. A. Mander, M.A., lately „]>- pointed .--fcytor-or:ra.ni=er. addressed the conferenVtf' on the question of the Workers' Educational Association, and strewed the importance of supportingthe movement. Mr. Mander was listened to attentively and received a vote of thank*. REGRET EXPRESSED. PUBLIC SERVANTS' ATTITUJMS. LOYALTY TO GOVERNM-ii-NT. A resolution as follows was passed at the annual meeting of the Aucishand Tlranch, Public Service Association, last i evening:— I "That this mating expresses its { regret at the attitude adopted by the Post and Telegraph Association in its resolve to link tip with the Alliance of Labour, and conveys to the Prime Minister its assurance of the ioyalty of the members of the general public" service of Auckland."' FARMERS' UNION ACTION. The provincial executive of the '■Farmers" T'nion last evening discussed the recent ballot token by the Post and Telegraph Officers' Association. The chairman i 'Sir. K. D. Duxfield), who introduced the subject, said the action of, the department employee? was a most serious matter. It was intolerable, he added, that a branch of the Public Service should be controlled by a body of extremists. On the motion "of Mr. R. C. Allen it was resolved: "'That the executive deeply regrets the result of the ballot of the employees of the Post and Telegraph Department, by which they have decided to join the' Alliance n'f Labour."' PROTECT FROM HAMILTON. (By TeleiTapli—Owii CXTrespoclenL* HAMILTON, this day. The Hamilton Oii.mber vi ("oiurnere* last night parsed the following: "That the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce regrets thtit a. majority of the Post and Telegraph Olh'c-ers' Association lias seen lit to vote for attachment to the Alliance of Labour, as it considers that such an important State Department should not be under the influence of an outside organisation, prominent members of which are known to advocate disloyalty and revolutionary doctrines, the effect of which will lead to national disorder and possibly civil war. This chamber also expresses its approval of the attitude taken up by the Government as expressed by the Prime Minister and PostnraaterOenera.l, and pledges itself to support the Oovernment in every way in any action it may take to preserve the right* of all" law-abiding and loyal citizens."