A FIERCE FIGHT AT GREYMOUTH.

Grey River Argus, 19 April 1911, Page 6

A FIERCE FIGHT AT GREYMOUTH.

IBy. Telegraph — Per Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, April 18. Amongst the principal remits agreed to by the Trades Labour Conference this afternoon were the urging on Government the introduction of a minimum wage bill providing tor Is 3d per hour; that the workers compensation Act be amended to pro vide for-"" country workers an ambulance chest; also, for the payment in tull from the date of an accident ; that the Shipping and Seamen's Act be amended to provide for the service of a writ on the master of a vessel notregistered in New Zealand ; that Government appoint, an inspector of ship's gear; that the law be amended to compel work to cease on the wharves between 10 p.m and ' 7 a.m. Mr Webb, the chairman of the Mm ers' 'Federation and' T. E. Taylor, M.P. were welcomed by the conference

IBy Telegraph — Per Press Association) •CHRISTCHURCH, April 18. Mr T. E. Taylor, M.P-., declares that the Press Association report of the lleefton meeting was very misleading. The meeting lasted two and a-half hdurs while the dispute with Air Thompson occupied about twenty minutes. The meeting was one of the most orderly he had ever addressed in New Zealand, and the motion in favour of national prohibition v as carried withonly two dissentients. Mr Taylor adds that he had a fine meeting at Runanga, and a fierce fight at Greymouth.