TIMBER WORKERS

Evening Star, Issue 15538, 7 July 1914, Page 4

TIMBER WORKERS

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING-, [Per United Pbess Association.]

WELLINGTON, July 7. At the conference of New Zealand Timber Workers’ Federation to-day the following remits were adopted : That delegates be sent to the Australian Timber Workers’ Federation Conference in Melbourne at Easter, 1915,, and that the* secretary write asking for exchange clearance cards. That the Government be urged to carry on a. scheme of reafforestatoin on an enlarged basis. That the decisions of previous conferences which have not been given effect to bo again reconfirmed, and that a deputation wait on the Government requesting that they bo given effect to. That the conference strongly protest against the action of the Government iu assisting immigrants into the Dominion whilst so many of our own workers aro not fully employed.' That in all future applications, for awards unions bo advised to claim a minimum wage of 10s per day. That on account of the depression in the timber industry, the number of unemployed, and the continued increase into tho Dominion of foreign timber, manufactured or otherwise, tho fedora tion take steps to assist saw-mill owners and manufacturers in urging on the Government the advisibility of curtailing such large importations, and that tho duty be increased on all timbers under the size of 12 x 12 inches or tho equivalent. That this conference, representing 10,000 timber workers, protest against the cruel sentence inflicted upon Holland in connection with the strike, and demand his release. That the Government be urged to experiment in the direction of findingsuitablo timber to take the placo of white pine for butter boxes. Thai- the Government be urged to considerably j-reduce freights on 44 shorts.” and that it bo pointed out that millions of feet of that class of timber are now destroyed every year. ® That where the Arbitration Court make an award granting an increase of wages it shall not be lawful fpr the employer to raise the cost of commodities. That the executive bo fixed for tho ensuing year at Christchurch, and that the Easter conference be held there.