LABOURERS’ CLAIM

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20622, 25 November 1941, Page 8

LABOURERS’ CLAIM

WORKERS’ WEEKLY WAGE HOLIDAYS WITH PAY (Per Pleas Association.) WELLINGTON., this day. The ninth annual conference of the New Zealand Federated Labourers and Related Trades Industrial Association of Workers last week resolved that the Government be urged to introduce a weekly wage to all workers, that strong representations be made for immediate provision for payment for statutory holidays to all workers, and that a holidays with pay bill be brought in. The Federation of Labour is to be requested to make strong representations to the Government for a complete overhaul of the Workers’ Compensation Act in conformity with the report at the 1941 conference of the Federation of Labour. A committee was set up to investigate matters in connection with Scheme 13 men whose services had been utilised by local bodies. A suggestion that hospital maintenance should come out of the social security fund was the subject of a protest on the ground that maintenance was a proper charge on the community value of land and that it was indefensible that the richest people in the land should,, be relieved of taxation at the expense of people who had not property but depended on their labour. The wages tax should be abolished altogether at the earliest opportunity. It was decided to ask the Federation of Labour to form a national building trades union. Other resolutions object to any possibility of a Coalition Government and urge the Government to take over control of all patriotic funds.