BUILDING TRADES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 235, 16 September 1922, Page 4

BUILDING TRADES.

, MOVEMENT FOR FEDERATION. Wellington, Sept. 15. With the object of ultimately securing uniformity in the matter of awards in the various trades affected, a movement is on foot for the establishment *of a Dominion Building Trades’ Federation. A certain amount of difficulty has been encountered in overcoming local prejudices, but the scheme is reported to be making progress. District councils have been set up in Wellington) Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin and negotiations aye now in train for the formation of a national council with headquarters in Wellington, on which will be representatives of the different building trades, such as carpenters, plumbers, bricklayers, plasterers, painters, building trades’ labourers, etc. , When the new federation becomes an actual fact it will be one of the largest industrial organisations of its kind in New Zealand. It is believed that the next step to follow will be the affiliation with the Alliance of Labour. Up to the present the registration of the Building Trades’ Federation has been refused by the Labour Department on the ground that the workers in the building trades have federations of their own erafts, to which they can belong. Officials of the Federation point out, however, that they are not very much concerned with this point just now, as they are anxious to perfect thA details of the organisation first and work up to the ideal, obtaining a uniform set of wages for the various classes of tradesmen involved.