TRADES CONFERENCE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8777, 3 April 1907, Page 2

TRADES CONFERENCE.

Per Press Association. Dunedin, April 3. At tho Trades Conference to-day a resolution was carried that the Electoral Act be amended in the direction of making it illegal for any candidate to Parliamentary honours to make donations within three mouths of tho election. Mr Brooks, Auckland, moved and it was carried on the voices : ‘ ‘ That Government be urged to immediately nationalise the hoot industry so that our population can be supplied with New Zealand made goods at a considerable reduction in present prices. It was resolved, without discussion, that Government be requested to introduce legislation providing that whore male and female workers were employed they should receive equal pay for equal work and that the same facilities be granted females as males in procuring work which they are equally capable of performing- , .

The following further resolutions were adopted : ‘ ‘ That Conference reaffirm the principle of rating On unimproved values, that State Legal Bureaux be established with public defenders; tbat'Govornmeut be urged to adopt a self-reliant policy and cease borrowing, except for the redemption of loans and to issue legal tender notes; for the purpose of completing the unfinished Main Trunk and other important railway lines now in course of c oustructiou and for other permaue nt and reproductive works with a vie w to providing a permauout currency and medium of exchange for the internal trade of this colony; that Government be urged to increase the laud and income taxes ;to reduce the exemption from income tax now allowed to £2OO and to abolish the exemption in respect of laud tax and that the revenue so derived be applied in a corresponding decrease of duties on the necessaries of life which cannot he produced in the colony; that Government he urged to abolish the Legi slative Council.