EXTRA EDITION. EMPLOYERS' MANIFESTO.
A TRADE COUNCIL'S REPLY. [BT TELEGRAPH — OWN CORRESPONDENT.} DUNEDIN, This Day. The Otago Trades' Council Executive has published its answer to the liinployeis' Federation manifesto. It claims that) the employers' previous attitude towards labour legislation is sufficient to show where an employers' agreement has been given it has been at the point of the bayonet. As to the assertion tJhat the desires of the federation alwa3 - s has been to increase employment and provide work for all at a fair wage with reasonable hours, the Trades Council maintains that a fair wage witfli reasonable hours was only merely given when dragged out of the employers by unionism. It alleged that in some of the large warehouses underpaid clerks and drapers' assistants, unprotected by a union, were compelled to resume work night after night) for months without overtime pay. Confidence is expressed by the council in the eventual success of the battle in regard to preference to unionists.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 141, 15 June 1906, Page 6
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