TRADES AND LABOUR COUNCIL

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4312, 22 March 1901, Page 7

TRADES AND LABOUR COUNCIL

Tlie annual meeting of the Trades and Labour Council, was held at the (Trades Hall last night! There wore! about fifty delegates present, , and Mr {A. H. Guo per (president) occupied the ’chair. ; The annual report and balance-sheet werer.adopted; . r The report congratulated members 'on' ; the satisfactory progress madd by ( the, colincif during the year.' As .']9lould' , 'fdri|ember, the council. .rinpjhilaiied owing tq cljssenViprisi which- arose ,oyer the discussion ..ofparty .^politics. (At the commencement ofuthe.'yoar the fiumher of. affiliated-unions had reduced tc eight. .. a, .however, of}a‘- cM'-i ference pf' the xiniohs of the city (a constitution was .adopted, which! placed, party •po]iyic»,->oySsicle tther. pale |of iliih" jocts to' he. deali"'! with by the douncil: Tho .result.'.had tefy,;, as.vTOthurilf®h";exceptiori'-''a f Jl the unions that diSajffiKq!teiJ ( nibOUt 'the rend 0F'1899 addition,'the council had been strengthened! by the affiliation of three or,,lour other unions during tho year, and there was every prospect that the number would bo still further increased at an early'date. The number of unions affi-. liated at the present time was fifteen, with a membership of i close upon two 'thousand. The attendance of delegates during the latter part of the year--had been-vary satisfactory. The finance of the council had'during tho year been placed oh a sound footing. Tho receipts for the half-year totalled £B3 13s 7d, ami the expenditure amounted to £BO Hr 3d, leaving a balance of £3 2s 4d, in addition to which the council possaesed assets valued at about £4O. The Organr ising Committee of the Council had been kept busily engaged during the year, and had performed a large amount of good work. The committee actively assisted in the formation of the following unions;—Building Trades Labourers, Cooks and Waiters, Sausage-casing Makers, Tinplate and Sheet-metal Workers, Printing - house Machinists, Hairdressers’ Assistants, Petono Shop Assistants, Marine Officers and Plasterers. All: these organisations were in a sound position, and, ip several instances, had already done much to (better the position of their members. . A library had. been started by the council for the use of members, with vent gratifying success. As the result of valuable suggestions fro'm the ox-Maybr, ; Mr J. R. Blair, a committee had been appointed to go thoroughly into the matter of the erection of a Trades! Hall. The report pointed out that the council, since the alteration of one of iti rules some four or five years ago, hap only been too ■ glad to welcome unskilled labour unions to affiliation. 1 | ... The deletion of, officers resulted as follows; —President. Mr W. Naughton; vice-president, Mr W. Noote; secretary, Mr A. H. Cooper j treasurer, Mr iR. E. Vaney; trustees, Messrs J. DarbcUr and W. A. G. Skinner ; committee of managemetat, Messrs D. McLaren, W. C. Gourlay, T. Lynch, Tuckett and jW; H. Hampton; auditors, Messrs W. H. Hampton and H. C- Fuller. . i