NELSON TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11872, 28 February 1907, Page 4

NELSON TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL.

The general monthly meeting of the above Council was held on Thursday, 21st. After the usual formal business the election of delegates: for the Trades and. Labour- Council to I c held in Dunedin at Easter; was held. Three delegates were elected to represent the CounclJ. Ballot for emergency delegate, owing to a double tje, was held over till next meeting. It was decided to call a special meeting to consider the Conference agenda paper on Thursday next. The proposed standing orders for the Conferencce were read and discused, and , the delegates received their instructions re some amendments to same.' It was decided to invite ; several Unions to insist in securing the return of Mr Piper as Mayor at the next Council election. A discussion ensued on the proposed special order to float the city pvei draft into a loan, and as; a result the secretary was instructed to forward the following.resolution to the City Council: — That the Trade and Labour Council

f emphatically pbleara^iffsT*tß« at« ! tempt of the City uouncil to convert by special' order the city, bank > overdraft into a loan aS ( 6 Y coto * eider that 9uch jpjjpjpbßal ' shbuld be placed before the ratepayersrin the usual manner forjfcheir sanction" A Wellington newspaper report aa to alleged sweating in a Nelson manufactory was considered, and the secretary was^ instructed to draw the Factory Inspector's attention to the statement and ask: his: reason why action' is not' taken if the, statement was'tiiie. .".'. ■'■.".■. -_. :'. . '- i; ■' • The ss<?retary was instructed to communicate to various unions that the Labour Department undertakes cases for thefrecovery of wagaejunder the Workmen's Wages Act. Resolved, thafc-the City Council be asked, to see that all gasfittings were inspected and . "fostied before they were covered in. . Afao that the City Council be asked how. it is that when two men were, dismissed they refused to reinstate .ope -while the other .has been, reinstated, and is still in their employ, . Ju " ■'- *"!V