INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE.
WORK IN COMMITTEE. CONSIDERABLE PROGRESS MADE. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON, Thursday. A considerable amount of progress has been made with committee work by the National Industrial Conference, and tlh.« stage has now Been reached where report# on certain subjects are being prepared for submission to the general conference.
A meeting of the conference was held on Tuesday to set up a special committee representative of both sides, to consider matters that had already been sufficiently, discussed and to arrive at decisions on these questions for presentation to th« conference as a whole. A start was made with this work to-day, the specific subject* to be dealt with being the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, the minimum wago, unemployment, immigration and workers' compensation.
The personnel of the> committee is as follows: Employers' representatives J Hon. T. S. Weston, Messrs. T. 0. Bishop, W. J. Poison, W. G. Smith, H. H. Sterling, H. S. E. Turner and C. H. Williams. Workers' representatives: Messrs. J. Roberts, W. Nash, A. Cook, T. Bloodworth, W. Bromley, 0. Mcßrine, and R. Fulton.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19931, 27 April 1928, Page 10
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