ARBITRATION ACT
EFFECT OF AMENDMENTS. DISCUSSION BY LABOUR ASSOCIATIONS. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, November 3. Forty delegates, representing 50 unions, affiliated to the Alliance of Labour or the Trades and Labour Council and the Unemployed Association met in a conference to-day to discuss the situation caused by amendments made last session to the Arbitration Act. In a circular convening the meeting it was stated that some of the unions in the Conciliation Council had agreed to reduced wages, longer hours and the loss of conditions that it had taken years to gain. In order to avoid this it was essential that there should be a complete understanding for the future. ’The conference would, also discuss ways of improving the industrial organization. The conference, which will last two days, decided to set up a committee to co-operate with all the unions for the purpose of resisting the wage reducing policy of the Employers’ Federation,
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Southland Times, Issue 21855, 4 November 1932, Page 7
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154ARBITRATION ACT Southland Times, Issue 21855, 4 November 1932, Page 7
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