TRADES COUNCIL PROTEST

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 85, 8 October 1915, Page 8

TRADES COUNCIL PROTEST

' AGAINST EMPLOYERS', RECOMMENDATIONS. Several recommendations made by the New Zealand Employers* Federation at its recent conference were the subject of resolutions of protest at the fortnightly meeting of the Wellington Trades and Labour Council presided over by Mr. W. Cooper last flight. Various reports were received from committee and adopted.- It was resolved: (1) That the council protest against any efiort by employers to increase the boy labour in various trades; (2) that the council protest against the recommendation that the Conciliation Commissioner shall be prohibited from hearing .disputes •within fourteen days before or during tbe sitting of the Arbitration Court in ihe industrial district in which the Court is sitting; (3) that a protest also be entered against section 38 of 1908 Amendment Act (Conciliation and Arbitration) being amended as suggested, namely, that the Conciliation Commissioner shall not add parties to disputes without giving at least three days' clear notice. The Council further repudiates the employers' charge that the Arbitration Court has failed in appreciation of their evidence, and, as the mercantile community are announcing in no uncertain, voice 'business as usual,' we affirm the right to have our business, namely, our wages, reviewed as usual, and uphold the Court's decision to receive applications for new awards.