LABOUR CONFERENCES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 76, 1 April 1910, Page 3

LABOUR CONFERENCES.

m SHEARERS AND PAINTERS. Xhe two labour conference; at present being held in Wellington continued their deliberations yesterday at the Trades' Hall The Shearers' Federation conference, after discussion, passed several resolutions. A motion that the number of branches should be limited to one for each 'sland was lost. It was re:ohed tha' a portrait of the late Premier, the Bight Hon. Richard John Seddon, should bt printed on all ticket* of membership as <* tribute to "one of Labour's best advocates." further resolutions wert that first-aid instructions should be printed on :fl future agreemenfr with employers, who should provide a medico} chest in view of accident!- and injuries ; and that the Amendment to the Shearers' Accommodation 'Act, drawn up by the Canterbury Shear crs' Union, should be entrusted tc Mi. D M'Laren, M.P , tor reintroduction tc Parliament. It was also resolved tha.' in all sheds where Maori women \vt7°> employed as separate accommodation should be provided distine* from that provided for the general hands Another resolution was that all Federated Unions of Shearers should bf asked to endeavoui to run a candidate at the next election, who must be a bona fide member of some trade union, and that all members should take an active part in all political, municioal, and Lnspital affairs. The Painters and Decorators' conference closed yesterday afternoon. The Biocecdings generally dealt with the internal affairs of the trade as concerned the workers, with a reference to industrial and political matters. This confcrcr.ee has been the largest and most representative conference of painteis and decoratois in the Dominion.