LABOUR

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13658, 29 July 1908, Page 5

LABOUR

NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN LONDON.

X'aess. Associatioii-'-By TeLegraph-Copyr«ght LONDON, July 27.

' Th» National Labour Conference convened by the Social Democratic parly, is being held in London. One hundred and fifty delegates are present, and' Mr Thome, Labour -.ember for West Ham, is president of the conference. It was resolved that fio- democratic" Electoral RefoHn Bill will be satisfactory uiilesp it eitfuds !he franchise to every adiilfc man and 'woman.

NOTE OF DISAPPROVAL. Per PrfesS Association. ■ ■■ . HAMILTON, July 23. ;At a, largely attended meeting of the Chamber 'of Commerce, the following resolution, was: passed;, with one dissentient. —'That this meeting place. on .record its disapproval of the principles established by the aivaxd. pi thfe .Tramray/. Coitamjssipn, viz., that an employer of labour h;is not the same right of dismissing an employee as the latter has of quitting his employer's service, which the meeting considered a dangerous arid undesirable practice." ..'"',

- THE -ARBITRATION BILL. AUCKLAND, July• 38.; ; 'The committee of the New Zealand Ship-otvhe)?s' ■ Federation ' resolved to oppose the- proposed Councils of Cbnciliaiionr being of tlie L opinion that failing a settlement., of disputes, by .conference :tlie parties should go before, the.; Arbitration Court. The committee also thought the exclusion of . the , profeesionaL agitator wbuld be] a great in securing amicable' settlements. , ...-The traiisfer . of enforcement, cases';frpni _-j:he ,-Arbi.tratjpn Court tq the Magistrate's Court was' pb--jected to. - ; ... .. ■:-..".'. ■■;;'; GREAT, iNDiGNATION. : ;.-.-. At'the annual, meeting yt . the , Master : feutc'ijerS' ~y<iry, iiidignatitfji ..ivkb at. what '\r.a| characterise! as ifre. onesided* jucjgni'ent, aijlivere<)L 'by Dr McArttiur .in connection with the recent tramfrayei disjjutp.' .The following resplutibn'Was -unanimously, carried :— , Tliat' ; this : ifaeeting epefaits; tocfet eniphhtic'; prpte'sfa gainst the re'cbitifiie'iida-tioh'-'of tlje i special bPard?--«of - conciliation irl connection with the trainwayg dispute; i contends, that the- precedent -thus ■■ ostabj lfehed" whereby the ' company must in future giyev- a. satisfactory : reason lo ktf employee for his discharge is contrary toi a|l known find "will undoubtedly be the Jnieans of "greatly restricting; the inye6tme.nt" of 'capital .in the industries of j the Dominion, /and-; furthernioiß.ifhat; itwill have the effect;pf tending. to destroy that peacei and.'■. hai-ijipny between: employers, and employees wljiclr is .so £es&itial to the-., welfare/of. every business." ifc was depicted to forward a. copy Of this J resolution to' the Preimer-. In the rangerWortejW dispute at the Arbitration Court, in which'line rangefitters ask that their -wages shall be increased from . 9s' ;to- iss a day, and .body fitters from 8s to &>, -; Mr Scott. Jot,, the rejaj'ployere! pointed"'"oft tfiat* flunedin, jnaniifacturere would be 4t a A 4isa4yanj^.ge. ; "the rest; of New. Zealand'-as' the-' Christchurch rates were 6d a day lower-than the present Dunedin, rates,' and no awards affecting -this.industry,existed!'in Wellington or Auckland..: The Court will consider the matter!