THE BUILDING TRADES
NEW FEDERATION PROPOSAL. Excellent progress is 6aid to"have been made with tho formation of the Wellington Buildiny Trades Federation, wluoh tho organisers hope will ultimately embrace, carpenters, plumbers, painters, electricians, timber - workers, buildors' labourers-in fact, all workers connected with the building industry. The various unions to which the proposition has been made have approved of it, and the other organisations We .arranged meetings to. consider tlio matter. . . The constitution, as originally drawn up, is also deemed to be satisfactory. The objects of the federation, as sot out in tho constitution, are: (1) Uniformity of hours; (2) uniformity of working conditions; (3) council of administration re disputes; (4) board of appeal of disputes between unions; (5) common action in consideration of labour laws and their amendments. The federation shall consist of all unions connected with the building industry in tho Wellington In. dust rial District. Tho government of tho federation is to bo vested in a council composed of delegates elocted annually from each affiliated union, and the principle of "one union, one vote" is laid down.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 247, 12 July 1919, Page 8
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179THE BUILDING TRADES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 247, 12 July 1919, Page 8
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