Federation Conference in May.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 55, 29 March 1912, Page 8

Federation Conference in May.

Of the important working-da .■« conferences now pending, none is of greater urgency and potential than the conference of the New Zealand Federation of Labor.

11l all probability tlio cotifrieiice will assemble during the first woe!; in JVI .i •,•, and to our mind it would be electrically appropriate if actual business was preceded by a memorable First of May celebration officially engaged in by exorutive niid delegates. May Day is the international workers' day, the day of protest against militarism, the day of declaration in behalf of workin.g-clads emancipation.

However, as the outcome of certain recommendations made by the executive and accepted by the affiliations, the conference been convened, and it now remains for the unions concerned to send along their remits and to appoint their delegates. The actual day of starting conference will then bo announced.

So much progress Las been made since last conference, 80 much Jiae -transpired, and so miich calls f.>r treatment, that it is almost imperative that conference representation be of the largest quantity and strongest quality. Notwithstanding the oxpejisa we urge that each union either sends a delegate itself or combines with its neighboring unions in doing so, in order to ensure, every centre being represent-

It niu»t lie borne in nine! ti-af remits ior conference must bo forwarded to Mr. J. Glover, Secretary N.Z.F.L., not later tli.au Monday, April 1, and that no more than six remits may bg forwarded by any one branch. But, however timely remits rnny prove, may wo suggest tli.nt the chicf 1 work of conference, will b<! in tlio direction indicated in the KOC'otanal letter as follows: "Di,sen;-sing the At.ii-UI:«jkI trou!)lo, also for the reconstruction of machinery clauses and constitution of organisation for the purpose of effectively meeting; modem industrial r*>quiremouts." This is the very crux of the problems confronting the Federation, and inherent in it is the whole future of the organisation as custodian of Industrial Unionism and of '"Tho Maoriland Worker as sole cooperatively union-owned newspaper of tho Dominion. Too much time and thought cannot now he given a* bow best give shapo to the ideal we propagate thereby to gain tho goal we Book.

Will tlio unions involved devote meefc« ings to serious and basic consideration of tho situation, and will thoy make themselves conspicuous by their practicable proposals towards lhiking-up and achievement and success? The future is io> the lap of the Federatioe of Labor.