UNHAMPERED CONFERENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 135, 9 June 1932, Page 8

UNHAMPERED CONFERENCE.

URGED BY I/ABOTJR PAEift OWNERS' CLAIM DISPUTED. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") WELLINGTON, this day. 4. statement was issued to-day by the National Executive of the New Zealand Labour Party with reference to the miners' strike. It expresses concern at the attitude of the owners in setting down conditions before agreeing to meet the workers. "The clear aim of the miners," says the executive, "is to go to a conference at which every condition associated with the industry will be freely discussed, and in this they have the full support of the Labour party. The owners' insistence on the enforcement of a material condition affecting employment, without discussion, before any conference on other matters will be conceded, is contrary to the principles of conciliation and consultation which should be recognised in modern industry. "The claim of the owners for undisputed power to dismiss workers is contrary to the spirit and practice of the arbitration system, and cruelly infringes the right of workers to a voice in the organisation of an industry which their labour makes possible." The executive adds that, failing an agreement of tlie owners to an unham« pered conference, it is the duty of thli Government to bring about a conference, in the interests of all concerned.