TRADES AND LABOUR REMITS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 484, 17 April 1909, Page 6

TRADES AND LABOUR REMITS.

I (BI TELIOBAPH— SPECIJLI CORESSPONDENT.) J ■ v .-.■••■■ Auckland, April 15. 11' At the , meeting of the Auckland Trades ! and Labour Council last night tho question • of making remits to the forthcoming Trades . and Labour Conference to be held in'Wel- [ lington was considered. After.a short dis- . cussion is was decided to place remits on. , the order-paper, urging the Government: (1) To adopt the general principles of the Hon. A. R. Guinness's national accident "in- , surance reheme. .... i '. 2) To nationalise the iron industry.. . ■■ . 3) To pasa a Fair, Rent Bill :■.■■■■. ' -... i 4) To pass a Right to Work 8i11.,..-.. [ :.■.- 5) To open a State ooal mine in Auck- ; '.land.- ' ,"' ... ' . ■■'■■' '. '- '. ~ .■ '.. .' .; • ' (6) To utilise all the water power avail- . :able. ' .'.' ..'■]'■■-, '■ : ,' ' i i Mr. J. Aggers, the mover of the resolution ■; urging the nationalisation of the iron indus- [ try, argued that if, this were done, it would : open up new ' avenues of employment, and would enable steamships, which were at pre- [• sent constructed abroad, to be built here, i It was also decided to recommend the ; conference to reaffirm the principles of compulsory preference to unionists,'.tho taxa-