WHAT EMPLOYERS THINK.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13637, 16 April 1908, Page 4

WHAT EMPLOYERS THINK.

DUNEDIN, April 15, .A soecial meeting of the Employeife' Association was held to-day to consider the Government's actions in connection with tho Blackball strike, and ajso the question of abetting and Mr Skerrett's : opinion of section 14 of the Factories Act Amendment Act, 1907 v - The fol~ lowing resolutions were carried: "That this meeting of Otago employers ex- ~ N pressQS its disappointment^, at^the turn \ things have taken in connection' with the Blackball strike, and very much re- . % gret3 the Government's continued m* activity to enforce the Act. The meeting considers that in. the best interests of the community as a .whole the Act * should -be immediately amended ana made enforceable. against "all parties or expunged from the- Statute Bodks of the Dominion altogether: that as tho Government refuses tp^take prompt motion against those 1 unions which have * been guilty of aiding and abetting the strike in passing resolutions of sympathy and donating, money to carry on the strike, the New Zealand Employers' Federation be asked to institute pro- , ceedings against one or two of the 'princi'iai offenders, so that a test case may be made ' and the position of the employers ascertained ; that this mee^L. ing is strongly of opinion that i^eHefiMTS. amendments must be made to the; ft*^ 1 . dustrial /tkmeiiiaidon'andKAirMtiktioifc. 3 Act if it is to be of. any .lasting^ten^ >^ fit to the community, and that the local federation be appointed to draw up necessary amendments to be approved ' by a general meeting and forwarded to the federation for submission to employers .throughout -the -Dominion." NEWS FROM BLACKBALL. GREYMOUTH, Apfril 15. l There are no fresh developments in connection with the strike at Blackball. The Tyneside^Miners' Union taeet on Friday, when it is expected they will agree to continue to support the , strikers. .. .