TRADES AND LABOUR CONFERENCE.
[by telegraph.— association.} Ddsedin, Friday. The Trades and Labour Conference carried' I a resolution favouring the abolition of the "Si Upper Hoots and the introduction of the $>': referendum. It was decided to approve of 'J®| the principle of the Fair Tender, Hawkers, ||lj Usury Prevention, and State Fire Insurance $0. Bills, without being committed to details, It was decided to hold the next in Wellington at Easter, and that the"*? Councils be asked to send in recommonda-'
tions four weeks' previously. It was re* .j solved that the railway authorities be ap- r| proached and asked to improve the second- <' class railway accommodation, if possible J also that the Government be urgently re* quested to introduce a Bill next session i making Labour Day, the second Wednesday in October, a public holiday. A motion expressing regret that the Govern- > ment had not sent a Minister to address the Conference was withdrawn after discus-
sion. The Hon. W. J. Bolt gave an address on co-operative settlements, and was thanked. The Conference then closed. The delegates were entertained at a sraok# concert to-night.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10425, 24 April 1897, Page 4
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