EMPLOYERS' FEDERATION.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10876, 20 September 1911, Page 4

EMPLOYERS' FEDERATION.

(Per Press Association. 1 ) Wellington. September 2(1. . The New Zealand Employers' Federation Conference opened to-day. In referring to the industrial legislation passed last session, the annual report descri!«?'i tho Shops and Offices .Amendment Hill as "easily the worst Act on the Statute Book. " Many of the clauses are inoperative, and some of them the Government have not put into operation."

Alter reviewing other legislation, the report concluded: "The Executive emphasises the need for continued waichlillness in the interests of employers generally.. The evidence of industrial [ unrest in tjie Dominion in keeping with | di-.-a;isfaction of the workers throughout the world indicates the need of (loser combination of those engaged ill trades_ and industries. The organisation of workers and the movement towards the Federation of the various unions throughout the Dominion call for still more concerted action on the part of employers in connection with legislation and industrial disputes.