PROTEST OF TRADES COUNCIL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2588, 9 October 1915, Page 14

PROTEST OF TRADES COUNCIL

———o——— • AGAINST EMPLOYEES' RECOM-' MENDATIONS. Several recommendations made by the New Zealand Employers! .Federation at its recent conference were tho subject of resolutions of protest at the fortnightly meeting of the Wellington Trades and Labour Council presided over by Mr. W. Cooper-on Thursday eviening. Various reports were received froih committee iind adopted. It was resolved: (1) That the council' protest against any effort by employers to increase the boy labour in various trades; (2) that the. council protest against the recommendation that the Conciliation Commissioner shall be prohibited from hearing disputes within fourteen days before or during the sitting of the Arbitration Court in the industrial district in which the 1. Court is sitting; (3) that a protest also be. entered against Section 38 of 190^Amendment Act (Conciliation and Arbitration) being amended as suggested, namely, that the Conciliation ■ Commissioner shall not add parties to disputes without giving at least three days' clear notice. The - council further repudiates the employers' charge that the Arbitration Court has failed in appreciation of their evidence, and, as the mercantile community are announcing in no uncertain voice "business as -usual," we affirm the right to have our business, namely, our wages, leviewed as usual, and -uphold the Court's decision to receive applications for new awards.