TRADES HALL.
WEEKLY ■•MEETING.-- ■-.". ' Mr. W. C. Noot presided at the meeting of the Wellington Trades Council last night. The Canterbury Confectionery, Biscuit, and Fruit Preserving Employees' Union wrote stating' that-proceedings which they had taken: before Mr. J. 8,. Triggs, Conciliation' Commissioner, had been adjourned by him, oil the ground that it would not be fair to make an award for one district alone. The union was therefore asking Trades Counoils to assist in starting unions in the confectionery and/preserving trades in different parts of the Dominion. .'■ . ~ , . : The letter was referred. to the Management Committee. The Combined Unions' Committee, Broken Hill, forwarded an appeal for financial assistance for the locked-out unionists, their wives and families. ' „■.. The council resolved to donate £10 and to ask the unions of the district to contribute. Mr. Young's motion for tho exclusion of the press from-the meetings- of the council was postponed.. ■ ======== n \-;. I
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 489, 23 April 1909, Page 6
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