LABOUR PROBLEMS'

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 532, 27 March 1908, Page 3

LABOUR PROBLEMS'

fPBB *HtHBB ASSOCIATION? 1 Dunedin, March 26. A special meeting of the Otago ***** recommend the abolition of the .tate cloSng night now existant in shops, in^Ser to bring grocers, drapers and other ahop -a-aStute under ■ the same hours of labour as prevails m wU and that the Government be SSf introduce legislation to provide for a universal compulsory Saturday half-holiday. 2 That the Government be. urged to introduce legislation to restrict the importation of labour under contract whether male or female. 3 That the Government be.urgea to introduce legislation to provide (a) Parliamentary franchise to apply to electors of all local bodies; (b) every elector to have the right to vote on all questions subject to a poll. 4, That the Government be urged to introduce legislation to restrict the importaiton of labor under contract, whether male or female. 3. That the Government be urged to introduce legislation to provide (a) Parliamentary franchise to apply to electors of aU local bodies; (b) every elector to have tho right to vote on all questions subject to a poll. 4. That the Government be urged to establish clothing and boot factories, flour and woollen mills, bakeries, ironworks and ijron shipbuilding yarOs and to nationalise the marine, coastal and intercolonial service. 5. (That the Government be strongly urged to introduce a Bill into Parliament to amend the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, so that it will provide* for statutory preference of employment to unionists. 6. That the Government be urged to ameiid the Electoral Act, making it illegal for any candidate for Parliamentary honors to make donations » within three months of an election. 7. That the Government be urged to adopt a self-reliant policy, and to cease borrowing, except for the redemption of loana, and" to issue legal tender State notes for the purpose of completing important railway lines now in course of construction, and for other permanent and reproductive works, with a view of providing a permanent currency as a medium of exchange in the internal trade of the dominion • 8. That the Government be urged to amend the Shops and Offices Act to give the police power to see that the provisions of the Act are complied with. A committee waa set up to frame the remits dealing with the constitution of tne Conciliation Boards; also, other amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, the Workers' Compensation for Accidents Act, and the National Annuities Bill, and submit the same to a future meeting of the Council for adoption.