COST OF LIVING

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10923, 10 June 1921, Page 5

COST OF LIVING

EMPLOYER AND WORKER CONFERENCE OPENS IN WELLINGTON TO-DAY, REPRESENTATIVES APPOINTED. Yesterday there was a gathering of Labour representatives at the Trades H all for the purpose of discussing the sugge6ton that there should be a conference of representatives of employees and of representatives of employers to disc urn the question of the cost of living, particularly respecting such items as bread, meat, butter, and sugar. In communicating with the union representatives, the employers suggested that the conference should take place to-day. In consequence of this communication a meeting of Labour representatives was called, and took place at the Trades Council yesterday afternoon.

At the meeting it was agreed to meet the employers in conference today to discuss the matters indicated. The following were appointed to represent the workers at the conference:—Messrs M.-J. Reardon, J. McCombs, M.P., A. Parlane, J. McKenzie, and E. Kennedy. The representatives of the employers will be: Messrs T. S. Weston (president of the Employers’ Federation), A. C. Mitchell (vice-president of the Employers’ Federation), A. Mainland, W. H. Bennett, and T. Munt. Considerable interest is being taken m the conference, and the hope was yesterday expressed to a "Times” reporter that it would be a precursor to other round-the-table 'conferences between employers and employees to deal with various matters of general importance.