COUNCIL BOOM BUSHED.
AUCKLAND WORKERS EXCITED.
AT CONFERENCE DECISION
KEEPING WITHIN THE ACT,
AUCKLAND, Feb. 16
A conference of all the employers of general labor, representatives of suburban bodies, quarry owners, and eleven members of the City Council was held last night to consider whether the members of the General Laborers' Union should be met on an equai footing to consider the proposed increase of wages and improvement in the working conditions in certain classes of labor.
After a discussion lasting two hours it was resolved:' "While the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act is the law of the land this conference declines to make agreements outside the Act, and confirms its previous resolutions."
After other resolutions had carried, the members of the Laborers' Union burst into the room, despite the remonstrances of the City Engineer, and used, it is said, violent and insulting language towards the conference.
The Mayor informed the men that they had no right there, and they left after a messenger had been instructed to ring up the police.
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Northern Advocate, 16 February 1912, Page 5
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