TRADES COUNCIL.
A meeting of tho Trades Council was held last week, Mr A. Collins iu the chair. The Typographical Socioty wrote to the effect that Mr W. A. G. Skinner bad been elected a delegate to the Council in the place of Mr Mclntyre. A letter was received from tiro Hon T. Glassey, M.L.A., leader of the Labour Party, Queensland, thanking the Council for their congratulatory letter on the success of the Labour Party at the elections, and stating that tho defeat of many of tho Labour candidates was due to tho powerful opposition received from employers of labour, tho clergy, banking institutions and tho greater part of the press of the Colony. Yet in spite of all these drawbacks, added Mr Glassey, tho Labour vote alouo is fully 30,000, while that of tho Government is only a fow thousand more. Consideration of a letter received from
tho Workers’ Political Committee of Otago, submitting a political platform, was deferred for a week. The Under-Secretary for Railways wrote, with regard to tho expenditure of £IO,O )0, that it would bo spent on locomotives, bogie and saloon carriages, sheds, cottages and improvements to station premises.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1264, 21 May 1896, Page 34
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