BUILDING TRADE

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 17, 15 October 1926, Page 12

BUILDING TRADE

PROPOSALS FOR NATIONAL BETTERMENT HIGHER STANDARD AND LOWER PRICE Dominion Special. Auckland, October 14. Proposals for national betterment of the building trade, including suggestions for registration of all engaged in the industry, will be placed before a conference of allied unions and employers to be held on November 17. The proposals take the form of recommendations from a sub-committee representing employers and employees, set up at joint ' conference recently convened by the Guild of Master PaintThe sub-committee recommends that the industry should combine for the purpose of securing a Parliamentary measure to set up for the building industry a National Industrial Council to be composed of representatives of ’ the unions of employers and employee? in equal numbers, with power to obtain Government representation and the co-operation of experts. It is expected that the standard of work will be improved, and, at the same time, that the price to the public for good work will be reduced The subcommittee: savs that information. and experience will be gained which will be invaluable to the industry, to the Government, and to the public generally, and will stimulate advancement and improvements in other industries. If the joint conference approves, the plan a National Conference will be called to settle, details and place the proposals before Parliament.