THE COST OF LIVING.
TRADES UNION CONFERENCE. ARBITRATION COURT FAILURE. Per Press Association. Wellington,' September H), The local jtriules unions lust night held a conference .ou the cost of living question, and a ■committee was sol up to go fully into., the details of the matter. Resolutions were adopted stating that in the opinion of the conference the .trend of legislation during the period had been in the direction of receiving the employer of liability towards the workmen, while repressive measures have been framed to curb the growing discontent amongst, the workers. The conference declared that the Arbitration Court had been a complete failure, its judgments being without weight or value, and that the employers, when refusing to meet tb ( > workpeople to adjust wages to meet the greatly increased cost of living, are following a policy which must certainly leati to and industrial up-heaval.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 46, 19 September 1918, Page 2
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