LABOR MATTERS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2140, 24 July 1907, Page 2

LABOR MATTERS.

I Press Association. ' ~ , i WELLINGTON, yesterday. . ' ■ A deputation representing the Con-: . • ference of Trades Councils of tho *7 . colony waited on the Hon. J. . A.ygh ■ Millar last niglit to place before him f' f| tuo long list of resolutions adopted l • at tho last conference which sat in: .|f : Dunedin. Mr. Cooper (President) - : Saul the deputation could claim to ft ‘ voice the opinions of organised labor ' ? throughout tlie colony. They wished; c*uf to distinctly state. that they heartily JLf supported the principle of concilia- “ tion as embodied in the Conciliation r au ‘»- Arbitration Act. To some ex 1 tei) J the Act hud been discredited antra ft 1 rendered inoperative, but the fault. [ ‘ entirely witK the i hey desired that where emplovers * S employing a majority of workihen 1f 1 \ agreed to the recommendations’of'the i ;l 3aßk V Conciliation Hoard, these recomiiieu- v da lions should have the force of an award. Conciliation Boards should have tho power of amending their Ye- f commendations as they wanted if -* * ilm present Act remained. They onposed the proposals to establish wages ft boards. Fifty per cent, of the uniqtt:. ■: w would not, through inability to - 1 mo i; to serve on boards, be able"td ' • ayau themselves of the privileges. J J resolutions passed at the Dunedm conference were then submitted to the Minister. In reply, he said- - he hoped during this or next week to - calculate the amending Conciliation ;;V:l?Tu g J ab 0 1; unions - oneoLcct had been to encourage unionisu. and enable facilities to be given to deal with all disputes in a prompt manner. He hoped the scheme fie ha 1 devised would enable a breach ’ *«! ' ti he dealt within four days of "its ,• nu.nt ns n the llQtice of the Depart' n eat It was very easy to tails about local currency but when one ft' rot inside and saw the intricacies Of finance lie saw it was different. Tho proposal was not practicable unless k’.ft the State bought all the gold in the l l’ V J ,H - Soouts >de. lie had ti led to adjust the tariff so that no nic.listry would bo sacrificed for an- \ object of putting a spe- A cm. duty per pan- on boots was to ' do avav with the importation of i■; * sweated goods. According to one resolution tlie Conference carried it mil constituted -itself a political '. * p.nty, and then they asked the. Go- i \Cliimeut to advance, money for dole- 4 *?» es a^er id the conference. If tlio ■ Government granted it to on© they 1 would have to do it to all. The - - Government desired to continue tlie ft volt, hut. if the conference was to be - a political organisation they would i be simply forced to say no. -‘ft., ft. •