TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL.
The general meeting of the East Coast Trades and Labor Council was held m the. Trades Hall on Saturday evening, there being a good attendance of dele-' gates. In the absence of the President. Mr A. H. Anderson presided. A consid erable amount of, outward and inward correspondence was read, approved and received. Amongst the inward corres-. pondence was a letter from the Minister of Labor, approving of Labor Day being observed m Gisborne on Thursday, November 16th, also from Sir Jas. Carroll, wishing success to the Labor Day demonstrations, and enclosing a cheque for £3 3s to the prize fund. The Waterside Workers' Union also forwarded a cheque for £3 3s to the prize fund, other unions promising to do their, best m a like manner. Delegates reported that troph ies \vere being liberally donated by tha business people of Gisborne. The secretary (Mr D. W Coleman) reported that the conference between the Trades Council, Employers' Federation, and the Retai|ers' Association, had amicably agreed to observe Thursday, November 16th, as Labor Day, and everything pointed to a successful demonstration. A deal of routine and very interesting business was transacted, amongst which was an interesting discussion regarding the proposal of the Totara Timber Company for the right to construct a pri-vately-owned railway m the King Coun-try.-_The delegates strongly condemned the. principle and the secretary was instructed to forward . this , resolution : That this Council strongly protest.' against any'privately oWihed railways being constructed m the Dominion. The secretary ■ read the balance-sheet and financial statement for the half year ending September 30th, which was considered very satisfactory, everything pointing to success for the ensuing half year, y , t > -;-■ , ;" ■: - '
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19111016.2.9
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12585, 16 October 1911, Page 2
Word Count
279TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12585, 16 October 1911, Page 2
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in