LABOR COUNCIL
j[Pcr Press Association^
Dunedin, last night
At a meeting of the Trades and Labor Council a resolution was passed calling unon the workers not to buy bread from bakers who are tied to the flourmillers combine, and to patronise those who are free to buy flour from unassociated millers, with the object of resisting the combiner’s efforts to inflate the price of broad. It was resolved to express indignation at the I action of the furniture trades employers in locking out workers in contravention of the spirit of the conciliation and arbitration law and in determining to import cheap sweated-made goods, principally Chinese manufactured, from Australia. The Council asks the Premier to use his influence in preventing this section of employers inaugurating a system evidently intended to destroy the working of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act,
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 833, 6 March 1903, Page 3
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