TIMBER-WORKERS.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS. The conference of Sawmill and Timber Workers was resumed to-day, Mr. J. Alsweiler (Southland) in the chair. WORKERS' COMPENSATION. An amendment to the Workers Compensation for Accidents Act, to provide for full pay when incapacitated by an accident, was moved by Mr. ( Tuffen. Mr. O'Byrne opposed this, declaring it was hardly fair to expect the employer to give full pay ; but it was fair to ask that the half nay should start from the time of injury and continue through the period of incapacity, until work was resumed. He moved an amendment to that effect, they must give the other side a chance, he said. Mr. Phelan also supported the amendment, "saying they were talking about hundreds of thousands of pounds as if it were shillings. It would all come back on the worker. An effort should be made by the worker himself not to rely wholly on compensation under the Act. After further discussion an amendment was carried" to the effect that the Act should be amended to provide for full pay for the first four weeks of incapacity, and half pay subsequently, and that the employer should pay all first j>id and medical expenses, provision to be made that the injured worker receive his pay weekly on the ordinary pay day. RAILWAY SLEEPERS. Mr. T. O'Byrne moved that the Government should be urged to obtain all railway sleepers in the Dominion. He advocated the creosoting process for preservation. The motion was carried. ARBITRATION. Mr. Phelan (Auckland) moved: — 'iThat the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act should be amended to provide that the Council of Conciliation W empowered to make an agreement into an award witnout appealing to the Arbitration Court." It was absurd, said the mover, that they should have to go through v the farce of submitting the agreement to the Arbitration Court. It would save time, trouble, and expense to abolish the procedure. An agreement did not include persons subsequently starting in the business affected by the .agreement, an award did. The motion was carried, as was also v one that the election of municipal and ' all other local bodies should be on the Parliamentary franchise. It was resolfed that - the State be urged to extend its coal depots. Mr. D. M'Laren attended and urged on the workers the consolidation of their forces into a federation of labour. ■■ The conference adjourned till the aiternoon.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 107, 2 November 1909, Page 7
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