TRADES AND LABOUR CONFERENCE
PER PBKSS ASSOCIATION. A UCKLAND, April 2. At tho Tr jdes und Labour Confer* nc : this afternoon it was agreed to recommend ttieGovernment to increase the old a<;« pensions to 10s p-r week; that miners having worked lor tan ynars unders round he entitled to the pension at 60 on ac;ount of the onhealthy nature of their occupation; that the Old AgaPensisns Act be amended so as to exempt any inoome deiived from a friendly or benefit society; that the system of considering board and residence as income should be abolished. It was re olved that the time has come whon it is desirable in the interests of the Empire, commercially and industrially, for the Government to consider whether international preference should not be given to British goods minuf<ctured by British workmen. The conference reaffirmed the desirableness of establishing a State farm.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 3 April 1902, Page 2
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