WORK AND WAGES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9323, 25 August 1908, Page 3

WORK AND WAGES.

♦ : OPERATIVE BOOTMAKERS 1 SOCIETY. I The half-yearly meeting of the Ghrisfcchurch Operative Bootmakers' Society was held in the Ti-ades Hall on Wednesday evening. There was a large attendance oi members. The balance-sheet showed the society to be in a good financial position. A letter was xeceived from the pi'esident of the New Zealand Federated Boot Trade Council, stating thai Mr G. R. Whiting had been elected permanent secretary for th© Federation. The election of officers resulted as follows : — President, Mr J. Ballantine ; vice-president, Mr James Young ; secretary, Mr F. M. Robson ; treasurer, Mr R: T. Bailey ; minute secretary, Mr James Shirlaw ; committee, Misses Denson and S. Gunn, Messrs • Gulliver, Welsford and Taylor; delegates to the Canterbury Trades and Labour Council, Misses Bowman and Gunn, Messrs Bailey, Duncan, .- Gulliford, M'Greal, Welsford, Whiting and Young. A Press Association message from Dunedin says that the Otago Typographical Union, holding that the liquor question ought to be excluded from the* programme of organised labour, declined to adopt the Trades Conference resolution urging workers to vote no-license. 1 The Union passed a vote of thanks to Mr J. A. M'Cullough for his attitude as a member of the Arbitration Court in connection with the farm labourers' dispute. An appeal being received for financial aid from a body of unionists on strike, it was resolved to endorse the action of the Otago Trades Council in refusing assistance to unions which have deliberately defied the Arbitration Court by going out on strike. '