LABOUR

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13637, 3 July 1908, Page 5

LABOUR

THE.BAKERS'. STRIKE. Per Press Association. - "' WELLINGTON, Ju)y 2. Neither masters nor men have yieldedat all in reference to the. strike of bakers. The employers say that they aie gradually getting labour, and it, is certain that the shortage of bread is not by any means acute. - THE WATERSIDE WORKERS. WELLINGTON,' July 2. The watereide workers' conference spent to-day's sitting in discussing suggested', amendmen's to the Arbitration Act: It was -resolved to support an amendmtenf; to provide that conciliation boards shall be composed of one member from either party appointed as at present, and; that unions taking disputes to the boards shall have the Tight to add an assessor as required; also that the. conference opposes 'any restriction in the right of the unions to appoint any assessors they please. Among other recommendataoim the more important the appointment of any officer or any member of a committee of management of a union being purely a matter of internal management, should be left entirely to the union' as it pleases; that the conference affirms the principle that the statute law should 1 be- amended -to provide that alia agreements ~ and awards shall provide _ for straight-out preference ,to unionists. • VIEW OF LABOUR COUNCIL. DUNEDIN, July 2. The Otago Trades and Labour Council, at a- meeting this evening, -adopted a iesolution that it views' -with alarm-the tendency on the part of unions to strike against, awards- of the Arbitration Court, and strongly -urges 'the Goveraimenfc to take immediate steps to have the Conciliation 'and Arbitration: Act; *. .amended in such direction as will restore the confidence previously reposed in the Act by the workers of New Zealand.