TIMBER WORKERS IN CONFERENCE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2196, 8 July 1914, Page 8

TIMBER WORKERS IN CONFERENCE

THE BISIXESS CONCLUDED. liio t-unual zoiifcroi.ee of the Nor, /Scalane l 'limber Workers' Federation resumed a f 900 .1 m. jcsterdiy, Jlr 0, 1 , . il'<)cr presiding. 'liio ;o.ifcrcuiu strongly protested against "ll'o acuon or tlio ircnt 111 assisting ininiijirr.nti ii'to the I)n----'niiiion ttluly thero sc mai>\ of our own workers net fu'ly employed " 'Jl'o minimum <\agt.> m Hv- sw.mW.'nz imli'str\ ior adults shouM lie not lots (it «as Kiohcd) tli.in 10b. i<>r daj. "Oi account cf tlii dtjiisi-sion 0; tl.c timber nidt.strj, a:it. tl'c nunibci ol tiit , uiii'mplo.\(.'d, and tho coi'tinucd iurrc.isu into the Dominion of r orcif;n timber maiiutj'.turrd )r othcrniM , , t!io ?xeciiti.c of llm k'(lcr.itiou v it was ro"■olxed) should t. 1-e bt<ps to ps , tho ■■ofhimll o'Mieri ,ind Manufarturors 111 l>ri)iK»)f; forcibly before tlic Gourjimcnt lilir ,idki<abilil\ of vuitailing 5111.11 a mijwrtatio'i " It nab albO rjsol»ccl- "That nlicre tlic Arbitration Court makes .11. a.iard an increase ot wage? to the "iiipkncr-,, it shall 11' it be U'u"nl for tin 1 uiiiplo\eis t<i raiso tho rost of commodi--1 tics during I'le tr.rifn'y- of such aiiitrd, 01 1111111 biich time as til • Arbitration Court ciiiirosoi ot same " "That the Co»orrmciit bo urged to ii.rr\ 011 ;• ssihvmc of reaf i,rcstation op ,111 basis." "Jli.it tJio Go;criii"cnt b, x urged to "xperimont 111 tin , diiertion of fi.id'HK a siitl.iblo N.» Zealand tisrbi-r to ta'vo Ihe plrci , or white pino, \.huh is mow J tlip onh Urn) or us d foi the purpose of shipping buitcr to foreigi. mirkcts " Tlip next (.'unferciKo «ili Lr held m riiiistchiirrli at l.'asUv, and thp CVII- - t'lbun jimber Workers' Viiion ,\i\\ lie tlu> PNouitno body ior tho >cir. On thi> motion of Mr. o'Byrne, seconded hs -Mr l'l'ola'i, it vns decided that Miss's Mc\er anj bo the (lolf^ate , ; to represent the tPt'riaI tmii ?t llip Labour Conloreni.e riOiv sitI tmn in WelliiiKton I jl' II I'mit'T, of Caii'eruun, «.is rppo nie'l ai'irotnj for tin. cnsiiMt; vea. '! he del"Kitcs arp to «? ; t nn th" ' Punic 1 ! to-da\, to submit tv> h 111 the resolutions p.-.'i'cd !>v '110 cenfo/ent' , unicli Ijc.'i upon ipßisliitiiMK