Timber Workers

Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 13925, 29 June 1918, Page 4

Timber Workers

PASS MANY RESOLUTIONS.

[Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Last Night

Among the resolutions of the Timber Workers’ Conference were the following: (I) That this conference atlirms the principle of State control in the liquor industry. (2) That the Government be requested to assume the control of the white pine industry. (3) That experiments be made with a view to finding a suitable substitute for white pine for butter boxes. (4) That the Government exercise supervision over the milling of white pine to prevent the waste of smaller timber which was now taking place. (;">) That butter boxes and cheese and glaxo crates be standardised. (<i) That this conference deplores the failure of the Government to take adequate steps to reduce the cost of living. (7) That the Arbitration Court be abolished and Councils of Conciliation be given power to make their decisions into awards, and that thev be vested with all the powers now conferred upon the Arbitration Court: that before an award is made, the prices of the goods be ascertained, and the cost of the services rendered by commercial enterprises, by a board of: experts appointed for that purpose; the latter to act in conjunction with and under the direction of the Council of Conciliation. When an award is made prices shall also be regulated in similar manner and for the same period as the wages.