WEEKLY WAGES WANTED
DECISIONS OF LABOURERS’ CONFERENCE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, November 24. The ninth annual conference of the New Zealand Federated Labourers’ ana Related Trades Industrial Association of Workers last week resolved that the Government be urged to introduce a weekly wage to all workers, that strong representations be' made for 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 connexion with Scheme 13 men whose services have been utilised by local bodies. It was decided to ask the Federation of Labour to take steps to form a national building trades union. Other resolutions objected to any possibility qf a Coalition Government, and urged the Government to take over control of all patriotic .funds.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23495, 25 November 1941, Page 10
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