WHARF LABOURERS' CONFERENCE.
| WELLINGTON,. July 23. The Wharf Labourers' Conference decided to-day to urge the Government to institute a quarterly inspection of ships' Wharf gear; further, to ask the Government to amend the Harbours Aot in the direction of providing buildings > for the exclusive use of men employed at each port with hot and cold water baths and lockers. July 24. At the Wharf Labourers' Conference to-day it was decided to urge the Government to amend the Harbours Act in the direction of requiring the various. Harbour Boards to provide an ambulance, bandages, and other requisites of first aid, so that there might be no delay in aiding and securing the removal of workers who were injured on or about the wharves. The conference resolved to send greetings and an expression of goodwill to the Australian Waterside Workers' Association. WELLINGTON, July 25. At the Waterside Workers' Conference to-" day resolutions were passed urging that the in. migration of Asiatics be prohibited; that the Arbitration Act be amended to mako employers provide unions with copies of wage sheets; also, that Harbour Boardp be made entirely elective.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2785, 31 July 1907, Page 32
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