A LABOURERS' FEDERATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14926, 26 February 1912, Page 8

A LABOURERS' FEDERATION.

BODY FORMED IN DUNEDIN. f>T TELEGRAPH. PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, Saturday. Ax outcome of a conference of delegates of unions of labourers in the South Island, sitting here, is the formation of a basis and constitution of a federation of the labourers' unions of New Zealand. The constituent unions are set out as follow : —General labourers (including building labourers, quarry workers, wool and grain store workers), gas workers' unions, and such other properly constituted industrial union* as may apply for admission and be received by resolution of the council. The objects of the association are to confine in one body all kindred unions in order that their ■ interests may be protected, their status raised, and conditions improved, and to overcome evils arising from separate action. The association is to be governed by a council composed of a president, secretary and treasurer, elected by a ballot of the. whole of the members of the association, and one delegate from each federated union. The following pledge is to be exacted from each member of association:—"l hereby pledge myself to accept and loyally adhere to the rules and constitution of the Federation of Labour Association, to conform to all its decisions, and not to work for less than the rate of wages fixed by tho association, nor take the place of any person out on strike." The delegates at the conference are to act as a provisional council to bring about the federation.