TRADES AND LABOUR,

Otago Witness, Issue 2735, 15 August 1906, Page 23

TRADES AND LABOUR,

SYDNEY. August 7. An application for the cancellation of the registration of the Wharf Labourers' Union owing to the action of the union in rejecting an application for the enroiment of members lias been dismissed by the Arbitration Court. The judge favoured cancellation, but the employers' and employees' representatives on the bench dissented. J August 9. The Newcastle Colliery Employee*' Federation has decided by a majority of over two to one in favour of the cancellation of its ceitificate as an industiial union under the Aibitiation Act. ' The question of the pawnent of unskilled labourers was di^cu-^etl at a n.eennjy of the W&ihi Liberal aud La bom l-'edi-iat-uin i

last week. The following motion was passed :— '" That, in view of apparent failure of arbitrative and conciliative methods to provide a standard of wages, while rents, prices, and the cost of living are rising higher proportionately than wages increase, as ia shown by Mr Coghlan's statistics, this league desires the Government to take the matter into its serious consideration, with a view to providing by actual participation in business an optional State standard of recompense for those personal services which are daily rendered by a large section of the community separately from the ownership of land and capital."