FEDERATION OF LABOUR
ANNUAL CONFERENCE CONCLUDED. The conference of tho New Zealand Federation of Labour \uis continued, in the Trades Hall yesterday. Mr. T.. itlouclwoith, president oi tne lcderation, was in the chair.
The conference discussed the Board of Trade's report on tho coal industry during the morning. .An Otago delegate drew attention to tho fact that owing ro certain exemptions in tho Shops ajid Offices Act, certain places, suoh as commercial offices, where women worked, were not open lo inspection by Government officers. The conference decided to ask tho Government to provide for the inspection of.all places where women were employed.
It was decided to urge that no woman should be called upon to work overtime unless a permit had been secured.
After dealing with some other business, the conference closed.
The recommendations of the conference are to bo presented to the Government by a joint deputation from the Federation of Labour and the New Zealand Labour Party after the conclusion of the Labour Party's annual conference, which is to be opened in Welliug:on to-day.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19190703.2.12
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 239, 3 July 1919, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
176FEDERATION OF LABOUR Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 239, 3 July 1919, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in