LABOUR ITEMS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2998, 23 January 1901, Page 2

LABOUR ITEMS.

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, January 22. At a meeting of the Council of the Auckland Liberal Association, resolutions were carried, stating that “this meeting of members of the council of the Auckland Liberal Association be formed into an electoral ommittec to take steps to organise ward I committees to endeavour to secure the return of capable men among the workers |‘o represent (ho city at the coming muui■ipal elections; also that members of al! j'abour organisations be. invited to send [delegates to co-operate with the electoral committee of the Liberal Association to select candidates that shall be asked to contest (lie Municipal Council elections.

DUNEDIN, January 22. At the Conciliation Board to-day, the ’oilermaker and .Shipbuilders Union cited dl the employers in Otago and Southland, i’boir claims are: —48 hours per week, milermakers to receive not less than 18d an mur, overtime at one and a-half above the rdinary rates, except on statutory holidays, i hen double time is demanded ; apprentices o be indentured for five years after three aontlis’ probation, with one apprentice to

i . i every jouriievnmn ; country workmen to be'(paid their fares both way:-, besides living® (expenses on the job; pieieiecce for union-ft jists; boilermakers employed on repairing! [work to receive Is per day extra as “dirtt [money.” | j After healing the addresses and evidence^ jin the dispute between the Boilermakers’S jand Iron Ship "Builders’ Union and the" boaster ironfounders, the Conciliation Board ii | intimated that a ; decision would be given j on 2nd February. I