LABOURERS' CONFERENCE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 279, 25 November 1941, Page 8

LABOURERS' CONFERENCE

PAY DURING HOLIDAYS? (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Monday. The ninth annual conference of the New Zealand Federated Labourers and Related Trades Industrial Association of Workers last week resolved that the Government be urged to introduce a weekly wage to all workers, than strong representations be made for the immediate provision for payment for statutory holidays to all workers, and that a Holidays With Pay Bill be brought in.

The Federation of Labour is to be requested to make strong representations to the Government for a complete overhaul of the Workers' Compensation Act in conformity with the report at the 1941 conference of the Labour Federation.

A committee was set up to investigate matters in connection with Scheme 13 men whose services have been utilised by local bodies.

A suggestion that hospital maintainance should come out of the Social Security Fund was the subject of protest on the ground that maintainance was a proper charge on the community value of the land, and that it was indefensible that the richest people in the land should be relieved of taxation at the expense of people who did not have property, but depended on their labour. It was urged that the wages tax be abolished altogether at the earliest opportunity.

It was decided to ask the Labour Federation to take steps to form a national building trades union. Other resolutions objected to any possibility of a coalition government, and urged the Government to take over control of all patriotic funds.