CONFERENCE PROPOSAL

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14841, 5 December 1913, Page 7

CONFERENCE PROPOSAL

INDUSTRIAL PEACE WANTED. GENERAL STRIKE NOT BEING HELD OFF. " HERALD'S M - SUMMING UP. (By Cable.—Prasa A«wci_tion.—Copyright.) SYDNEY, December 4. j Mr Hughes states that until he has received replies .from Mr Massey and Sir Joseph Ward to his request to use every endeavour to get both .sides to accept arbitration, ho is not going to accept th© bald statement that tho cabled proposal of the conference to the employers that Sir Joshua Williams should arbitrate has been declined. Mr Hughes emphatically denies the statement that the conference is holding off a strike until after the State elections. He Baythat the members of the conference are sincerely desirous of industrial peace, and, elections or no- elections, would have acted in the same way. Tho .(immunity may rest perfectly assured that everything conducive to industrial peace is being and will b© done. ,_.. The "Sydney Morning Herald" says: "As was anticipated, th© proposal to refer the dispute to Sir Joshua Williams has been put aside by tho New Zealand employers, who would b© entitled very properly to resent this interference oa the part of outside organisations in another country who have no connexion with the dispute in the Dominion, and are not prejudiced by it." . .