BUILDING TRADE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 8 June 1923, Page 5

BUILDING TRADE.

WELLINGTON, June 7. ! Good progress has been made up to a point in connection with the proposal to form a federation composed of all

unions engaged in the building industry. The idea has been approved in Wellington, Canterbury and Otago, but Auckland has so far not come into line, and it is stated that the' failure of Auckland to take active steus in connection with the matter is delaying the prosecution of the project. A draft constitution for the proposed federation has been drawn v:>, but final ratification is awaited from the building trade unions in Auckland before the scheme can be placed upon a definite ba.°is. Once Auckland signifies its adhesion to the proposals, and the federation becomes an actual fact, steps will be put in train towards effecting some degree of uniformity in conditions obtaining in the different building; trades. It is not altogether expected that it will be possible to secure exactly one set of wage? for all classes of artisans engaged in the industry, but it is hoped +n get some improvement on the conditions now prevailing . and coordinate the interests of the different sections of building trade workers.