TRADES AND LABOUR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11047, 26 February 1898, Page 6

TRADES AND LABOUR.

The usual meeting of the Trades and Labour Council was held on Thursday night, Mr .1. Nagle (vice-president) in the chair. A large amount of correspondence was dealt ■with. The Dunedin Painters' Union-..was admitted to affiliation with the council.^ In answer to a : letter from the.secretary of the, Jubilee Pro-, icessiou Committee the following resolution was [carried: —"That this council regrets that">it I cannot be officially reptesented in the Jubilee | procession, as all the members of the couucil I beloDg to unions and most of them to friendly j societies and will wish to joiu with1 their I respective societies." Several matters were i ordered to bs placed on the order paper of the j annual conference to ba held in. ■Wellington in I Easter week, including amendments to " The I Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act | 1894-," an(3 a recommendation that Alderman Ban. Tillett be requested to. represent the New Zealand Trades Councils at the ; Trades Union: i Congress in September next in England. A raeetincr of furniture' eiaployers was' held >in the Coffee Palace last evening. , .Messrs j Gitlies. Elite, Hooper, Loriei Shaw, S&unders,, M'Kenzie, Bmndell. Hayward, Marlow,'AdainS son, Watt, Nees, and Parker were present. .Mr I Hooper wes appointed chairman. It was i resolved that the employers form thamselves \ into an association, Mr R. Chioholra being i elected president, Mr V. A. .Hooper secretary ' and treasurer, and Messrs Hayward, MarlowY i Saundsre, Shaw, and Watt a committee. . The ] matter of log and wages was disousaed, after I which the meeting adjourned for a fortnight. < The labour bodies in Wellington are. sugj Resting to the Government that the, measure j amending the Arbitration and Conciliation Act tto be introduced next session should contain > provisions giving the parties to any industrial' j dispute the option of having the matter taken : direct to the Arbitration Court, from.the de- • oision of which court there would, of course, be ;no appeal. They farther suggest the crealion I of two Courts of Arbitration, one for the North j Island and one for the South Island.