TRADES AND LABOUR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10290, 22 February 1895, Page 2

TRADES AND LABOUR.

(Fes United Press Association:) Wellington, February 21. The Trades Council appointed a deputation to wait on the Minister for Lands and ask the Government to set aside a block of land within easy distance of Wellington for settlement, to relieve the congested state of the labour market, Christchubch, February 21. At a meeting of the Master Printers' Asuociation to-day it Was resolved to take steps for registration under the industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. It was resolved to write to ail the master printers in Canterbury requesting them to join the association, and it was decided to communicate with other associations in the colony with a view; to co-operation, and to alter the name of the association to the Canterbury branch of the Federated Master Printers' Association.

(Fboji Our Own Correspondent.) i Wellington, February 21. The organiser of the New Zealand Workers' Union has interviewed the Minister for Labour a8 to mattei'3 noticed by him in a tour among the shearers in the Hawke's Bay and Wairarapa districts. One grievance is the mulcting of shearers in the exchange on cheques given them; and another is the practice adopted on some of the stations in taking out risks with insurance companies to cover supposed liability under the Employers' Liability Act and stopping the premiums out of the men's cheques. This the Minister considered q'lite illegal, and he failed also to see the necessity for gtationholders insuring their men under the act, as their liability under it would be practically nil, shearers not having to do with machinery or scaffolding, which by employers' neglect was likely to injure them.