TRADES AND LABOUR NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 249, 20 October 1928, Page 19

TRADES AND LABOUR NOTES.

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UHION MEETINGS FOR THE WEEK. Monday. October 22—Labour Day SpOrts In Tneaday, October 23—Stonemasons, Plum-

Jbundty. October 25—Plumbers' Educational.

lABOUR DAY CELEBRATION.

£]1 arrangements for the celebration of Labour Day in Auckland, on Monday next, are now complete, and the Trades Hall will be for the day, any union • meetings being declared "off," in view of the busy day expected at the Cricket Ground. From week to week this column Jag indicated in detail the programme arranged, and although the first r#ce not take place until 1 p.m., the Highland add national dancing events will v itart shortly after 10.30 a.m. This entails manning the gates at nine o'clock. In addition to the celcbratiOn on the Domain ' go Monday, the Majestic Theatre has been engaged for to-morrow (Sunday) evening, when a first-class programme of • musical items will be given by the Professional Musicians' Orchestra, for a benefit in aid of the Labour Day Fund i at the Trades Hall. The orchestra have given their services free, under the conductor ship of Mr. J. Whiteford Waugh. v It is their first appearance, and to accom* modate such a big orchestra of 60 members, the stage of the Majestic Theatre, commodious as it is, has had # to be enlarged specially for the .occasion. Two complete jazz bands are included ja the number of players. This yeay, the Labour Day Committee ]i participating, by the generosity of the > Auckland Rugby League, in a football tournament at Carlaw Park, teams hav- . -> ; ing entered from as far away as Hikuand Hamilton, as well as from our dubs. The preliminary contests ■ were held this afternoon, and the finals v ,:g ,vwn,be played at Carlaw Park, on Sat* today next, October 27. Sandwiched between the football events foot races also be run, and a game of putb> tiill will also be staged. Given a big . Vf /sHendanoe on Saturday next, the Labour , Say Fund will materially benefit. | . DOMINION CONFERENCE. . ' V-Hfc W. Miller, secretary of the Store* men and Flackers' Federation Executive, *- left on Sunday last for the south, to k attend a conference between the employ* |< erf in the wool and grain stores, and delegates from the Federation, on a pro* ; poiisl for a new award in these indus* it tries. The conference was called at the f' request of the employers, and met on {■: Wednesday morning at Chriatchurch. (v The delegates represented the following $ districts, Northern, Taranaki, Hawke's Jay, Wellington, Marlborough, Canter:.lmry, Otago and Southland, and epdeav* eUM'to agree on a basis for a Dominion Antd, but. without success, and tie ■digpute 'will' now be referred to the J Commissioner, in the usual ■way.' Mr. Miller arrived back yester- ; if morning. • ' •

REJECTED. < vb'b«t' week's notes, I commented on A las fact that the Rt. Hon. Winston i (krochill, by reason of having helped . to feaQd a briek house on' his oim estate ) «' Weitehsm, has responded, to an I; imtetfch from the' local secretsxy.' of j tie BniMert' Union, to a mem<i W, and paid his entrance fee. 6/. In tiiese comments, I noted 'that thC hsd evidently waived their '"tnis'hononred objection to receive as a owber one who cOnM not -produce his indentures as an apprentice to the trsda From a cable this week, it appears ttot | was ~a; little' ''too- previous'' in ay asautopton) for the Wees cable *M«s that the Manchester branch of tks Bqildlng Trades tTnioif has passed • resolution against the sdmissien to the union of the ChancelJ* rftl|s Exchequer, and demanding lust his membership fee be returned, *Ji« weuld be equivalent to expulsion. resignation of Mr. Hickson, the f®oeral secretary of the union, is also ssktdfar on the grounds, "for bringing "• organisation into public contempt aW"mieidei. w No , reasons are ad- ' **nc«4 for the "contempt and ridicule" 1 ™W»> it may. be that the union con- : Mers that not having serred indentures Ma bricklayer, he was not an efficient v ?yy> B *n, and his work might bring «s trade; into contempt/ On the other wad the British Union in any industrial 'tnmbfe., might be uneasy whether tie npwracrpit would obey the call to down Vbe " ° ertainl y * dangerous position

! AUCKLAND BUTCHERS. on Thursday, before the Commissioner (Mr. P. tush, - Auckland Butchers' Union Sill) is opposing an appllcaj°n, by the Poverty Bay blaster *° M v 'e the rates: of pay for •~y~ WjWiers in the Auckland district .as much as 5/, and in one case, JQ per week. The men at Gisborne are Ktt,e bit » for they have • t!is* tenacity of their represenwtites to place their case faiifly, and if is reached, to take! the "?Jwe to the Court. Again, they hsve ""went faith in! the established prejsjwits of the Bench to hope for a wmtununce of the doctrine that, while :/»*• be raised at the moment, iiwonJd be equally disastrous to lower P^Sr*I en . f6r the gratification of the 'Werty Bay master butchers.

WOMEII the chief sufferers. nift.* l * '•Ported from America that the r ' u L«l? rwrt,, accidents among minora, drw ipv* B adults, occurred in laun!ori»i • average number of awardl b—T;? 168 . 40 women in laundries was tin fi 5 • ' ce as great as the ave*- & EL2r ma nufacturing. The awardj kkiu.. 40 men were about a thin! netting ®^ r ' e9 than in all manustand out in the cauae hution of accidents to minora '< adult «" says the State StiULi ur Statistics. "These ate fajyv large proportion of infarfoj oy machinery and the small pfb' • tStt, . r ? Uß#d fe y 'alls. Even though toinam ,? m * fty machines on whidfc ijetj-J*" not . b c legally employed, renla,nß the chief cause of WM,eft t» among minors." *BRAI WORKERS' WAGES. ConimiisiOn has begun with **. • , 51 cv 'dence in connection ' WagC inq,,!ry = * thr« e M' a i ei " plo y erß ' le B al representa. m$$SSJ3»} ** "?/« a week li a Worker And hto tk «S 5 $ ildren 40 u *« upon. In l/*i hooting, 11/f - ?/6; and m'i*c*tti4rieaiit, •nmW 111 / te,TIS na twallY • provoke a / 1 )'! 18 (adds the A V stra * j» : ftmou „t f and what : i c ° uld he purchased for ' mentioned 2 Would it he the

wEafc 9«ntity and quality of IIn? P >T TO m ?i° y ®fPP uts fato his own ££2 J*™ 2t ""A"** anything beyond the bare neeessaries of lifet onnM wf whafc sort of a house could be rented for 10/6 a week? seems to have $2JhL*& fact tiat rural emK holiSy haVC a right JJS* and working hard In the bush, """$T W are entitled to visit the metropolis at least once a year—especially atahow time—and for a week or so get -«? 7 he monotony of their toil and environment. allowance was made for this in the prescribed wage. Indeed, it seemed to be assumed that the metropolis, with i' 8 ® eaßld ® attractions and its alluring sports and recreations should not be mentioned in the geography of the people who drudge for a miserable wage in the rural districts.