TRADES’ COUNCIL CONFERENCE.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 379, 2 April 1902, Page 2

TRADES’ COUNCIL CONFERENCE.

SOME PROPOSED AMENDMENTS.

By Telegraph—Pross Association. Auckland, last night. At the Trades’ Council Conference in tho afternoon the Arbitration Act was discussed at length, and motions were passed urging the Government to amend subclause 16 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act of 1901, so that it shall be compulsory for the Government inspectors and mine inspectors on a majority vote of any Union concerned to state a case for breach of the award to tho Court of Arbitration, and apply for the enforcement of the award ; urging the Government to amend the Act by giving power to either party to a dispute to take proceedings bofore a Stipendiary’ Magistrate for the enforcement of an award ; urging the Government to amend the Act by providing the employers of labor should keep a book showing the wages paid to all employers, such book to be open for inspection by tho inspector under the Act ; urging the Government to amend section 99 of the Act of 1900, by allowing a majority of tho votes actually cast to carry a proposal. A motion to repeal tho amendment of last session giving power to either party to go direct to the Court was lost by 11 votes to 2. A motion to make it legal for a Union to suspend its business (if desirable) between the time of filing a dispute, and the announcement of un award was also lost.