A SCOLDING LABOUR BODY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 4 October 1907, Page 4

A SCOLDING LABOUR BODY.

I MORE RESOLUTIONS FROM DUNEDIN. j [United Pjiess Association.] ■ DUNEDIN, Thursday. ; At tho meeting of tho Otago Trades and Labour aCouncil in reference to i importation of females into New Zealand from the Home Country for the boot trade, tiie Council passed the following : (2) That the Government be urged to give immediate effect to the resolutions passed by the recent Trades and Labour Conference, namely, that legislation be introduced to restrict tho importation of labour under contract whether male or female. Mr R. Bren, the Secretary of the Council, handed in his resignation, and consideration of the matter was deferred until the next meeting. The Council also passed the folowing resolution r — (3) That in the opinion of this Council the statement made by the Hon. J. A. Millar, the 1 Minister of Labour, recently at Wellington, to the effect that anybody who had been any length of time at the business knew resolutions could bo carried by Unions, one of whicll had been recently passed at a meeting where there wero only seven members present, is uncalled for, and this Council regrets that he should have so far

forgotten himself as to cast reflection 1 on the majority of Unions in this Dominion, to a large number of whom ho owes his present exalted position.