TRADES COUNCIL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143765, 13 April 1912, Page 3

TRADES COUNCIL.

TO-DAY’S BUSINESS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON,' March 13. The Trades Council Conference endorsed the principle of making rating on unimproved land values compulsory, and entered a protest against the proposed increase in the land tax exemption from £SOO to £IOOO. The conference decided that it is unable to accept the invitation from the Victorian Trades and Labour organisation to send delegates to a conference in Melbourne this month to discuss the question of disarmament, but gives unqualified approval to any proposal put forward that will tend to strengthen the agitation against the burdensome, unprofitable, and ridiculous competition in armaments going nip at present, and which is undoubtedly detrimental to the host interests of the people. A resolution was adopted urging the Government to employ only members of unions when ergaging casual labour.